pu

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Words With Friends
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Pronunciation
/pu/

Definition of pu

11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Punjab: a state of India.
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noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Punjab: a state of India.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of processing unit.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of prosodic unit (IU for intonation unit is preferred).
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of polyurethane.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of power unit.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of penalty unit.
  7. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of pickup (as in pickup artist).
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of pickup.

intj

  1. (alt-of, alternative, slang)Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.
    “IMO, this stinks. PU.”
    “THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS PU”
    “Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.”

name

  1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
    “He also announced: the former Pu County CCP Committee must be affirmed as a party organization. The decision to reorganize the Pu County CCP Committee was wrong. There was no one and no incidents in Pu County which were related to the conspiratorial activities of the "gang of four" to usurp party power and there was no bourgeois faction connected with the "gang of four."”
    “She wanted to find out where the artist lived and learn from him or her. She discovered the artist lived in Pu county, Shanxi province.”
  2. A surname from Chinese.

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Etymology

From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).

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