ptui
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
[p͡tʼʰ]
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[p͡tʼʰ] · [p͡tʼʰə̥] · /p(ə)ˈtuː.i/
Definition of ptui
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
intj
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The sound of spitting.
“I wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui, ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.”
“She would go 'Ptui! Ptui! Ptui!' and seem to reinforce her curses (in a language as colourful as that of the boys') by stamping on her own spittle.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Imitative But there is also the Ancient Greek πτύω, to spit, which is in Mark 7:33
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