puh

See also: puh.

English

Interjection

puh

1. Alternative form of pugh
   • 2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82:

     He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!

Synonyms

• (expressing contempt): feh, pht, pish, poh, pshaw; see also Thesaurus:bah
• (expressing disgust): bleah, eww, ick, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “puh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Phu, UHP, hup

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Danish

Etymology

An onomatopoeia: the sound of rapid exhalation.

Used to express emotion beyond compare to the point of which there are no words to describe the setting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puː/, [pʰuː]

Interjection

puh!

1. pooh (expression of dismissal or contempt‚ used when encountering an unpleasant smell)
2. phew (used to show relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust)

Synonyms

• (show disgust): ad, bvadr, føj, puha, puh ha
• (show fatigue): puha, puh ha
• (show relief): puha, puh ha, pyh

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German

Interjection

puh!

1. phew!

Further reading

• “puh” in Duden online

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Mapudungun

Noun

puh (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. night

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Portuguese

Interjection

1. yuck (expression of disgust)

Synonyms

• eca

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûx/

Noun

pȕh m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏х)

1. dormouse

Declension

Declension of puh

	singular	plural
nominative	pȕh	pùhovi
genitive	puha	puhova
dative	puhu	puhovima
accusative	puha	puhove
vocative	puše	puhovi
locative	puhu	puhovima
instrumental	puhom	puhovima