pfffft.

interj.  a sound of derision.

<Jumping to his feet, he yanked the weapon from Amanda’s weak little fist and turned the gun on her.  “Pfffft I say!  Your kitchen floor is unpolished, you don’t believe in Santa Claus, and you are bland!”  —Marianne Stillings, The Damsel in This Dress.>

n.  the sound of a stabbing hypodermic needle.

<She stuck the needle in, pushed pfffft, just like that, and it started burning immediately.  —Janet Laurel, Heart and Soul: What It Takes to Promote Health While Confronting Cancer.>

n.  the sound of an impromptu bowel movement.

<We’d be on the freeway and he’d be, “PULL OVER!”  And just go pfffft!  Right out there.  He didn’t care.  —Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991.>

n.  the sound of someone appearing in a doorway, seemingly out of thin air, as in “The Conspiracy of Dir en Grey” by Hidoko Matsumoto.


v.  to disappear.

<[S]he was the type who just goes pfffft one day.  —Jamie Harrison, Blue Deer Thaw.>

pfffsss.

n.  the hiss of a soda can, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also psst, psssshhhh.

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