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interj. an indication that one is miffed, as by a failed pursuit.
| <[W]hen they rounded the corner the bird had disappeared, and though the children searched high and low, there was not a feather to be found. “Pff! Typical,” Georgie spat, turning back down the stairs. —Justyn Walker, The Magician’s Daughter.> |
n. a spitting sound, as when the eye of a fantastical hurricane realizes it has sucked up the wrong person in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito; see also pffft.
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adj. broken up, “on the outs,” as in a relationship; see also phfft, phffft.
| <I just glanced at the paper and see where Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller are pff-fft. —Margo Howard, A Life in Letters: Ann Landers Letters to Her Only Child.> |
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n. a hiss from a corroded pipe.
| <Every few seconds one of the tanks wheezes a pff-pfff-pffff sound, louder than any of the birdsong nearby ... It sounds as if it were having pulmonary trouble. —Christopher Hallowell, Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle for America’s Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast.> |
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interj. a contemptuous huff, as in the novel Cage’s Bend by Carter Coleman.
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