pfffff.

interj.  an expression of disgust.

<Zjorn let a disgusted pfffff escape from his lips.  —Paul Lindsay, The Fuhrer’s Reserve: A Novel of the FBI.> <You worked for a Republican?  Pfffff.  I don’t want to have this conversation.  —David Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham.>

n.  a puff of air, as blown into a firepot in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes.


n.  a toneless whistle.

<I tried to whistle for Frightful, but couldn’t purse my shaking lips tight enough to get out anything but pfffff.  —Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain.>

n.  an expression of contempt.

<Fast zombies.  Pfffff.  Hey, fast zombies, where’s the fire?  —Patton Oswalt, quoted in Remains by Steve Niles.>

n.  the hiss of a “sudden ejaculation” of steam, as from a street cleaning truck spraying roads and sidewalks with water; see pssw.

PFFFFF.

v.  to disappear.

<[T]hey found something they like, they run after it, and PFFFFF!  —Red Jordan Arobateau, Lucy and Mickey.>

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