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phhhh.
interj.  a dismissive expression.

<Nobody calls me on the house-phone line, not now that I’ve got my cell phone.  Phhhh, I’m not answering it.  —Grace Dent, LBD: It’s a Girl Thing.>

phhhhh.
n.  a grunt, as when straining under the weight of a barbell.

<“Phhhhh.”  Clank.  The pope drops the barbell onto the Y rest over his head.  —Ethan Coen, Gates of Eden.>

phht.
v.  to dribble.

<Sometimes I think it is going to be a great one, and then it just sort of pffts out—there just isn’t enough flow.  —Lou Paget, Orgasms: How to Have Them, Give Them, and Keep Them Coming.>

phlrrt.
n.  the choking sound of someone foaming at the mouth, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also blrgh, bsshh.


pht.
(also phpht).  interj.  an expression of mild anger, annoyance.



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