ffft.

interj.  an expression of disdain, as in the novel Swordpoint by Ellen Kushner.

<I care nothing for polite society.  Ffft!  I care only for ... what I like to do.  —Rosemary Rogers, Dangerous Man.>

interj.  an expression of exasperation, as in the novel When Mountains Walked  by Kate Wheeler.


interj.  an expression of indignation.

<This place, it is not civilized.  Do you know I ‘ad to spend the night by myself?  Alone?  Ffft!  —Tabor Evans, Longarm 299: Longarm and Maximilian’s Gold.>

n.  a puff of air in the place of someone who has been “commodified and reified,” turned from a person into an “it,” and essentially “erased” (Mac Wellman, Cat’s Paw: A Meditation on the Don Juan Theme).

<You’ve been erased, and are now invisible.  There is no one standing in your shoes.  Only air.  Ffft.  —Mac Wellman, Cat’s Paw: A Meditation on the Don Juan Theme.>

n.  a racing car coming to a halt due to electrical failure, as described in Daytona 24 Hours: The Definitive History of America's Great Endurance Race by J.J. O’Malley.


n.  the angry hiss of a duck whose treasure and flying carpet have been stolen, as in Walt Disney’s Comics in Color, Volume 7 by Carl Barks.

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