pffft.

n.  the sound of a cork popping out of a bottle; see also Thfft.

<The cork escaped from the bottleneck with a gentle pffft! and he poured with a flourish, while lavishing felicitations on the bridal pair.  —Lillian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Tailed a Thief.>

n.  the sound of a person spitting; see also phfft.

<When the officer closed his eyes he’d go ‘Pffft!’  He sprayed his face with a mouthful of spit.  —Lou Putnoky, Pffft.>

n.  the sound of tobacco burning.

<Paul’s cigarette went pffft.  —ScrewTheDaisies, Things Inside>

pffft-pffft.

n.  the sound of rifle slugs hitting the ground.

<We hadn’t gone more than fifty yards when we saw a man in the rifle squad ahead of us fall; then we heard pffft-pffft and could see puffs of dirt as slugs burrowed into the furrows at our feet.  —Dean Joy, Sixty Days in Combat: An Infantryman’s Memoir of World War II in Europe.>

pffht.

n.  the sound of a harpoon gun being shot underwater, as in the comic book Danger Girl #1 by J. Scott Campbell and Alex Garner.

pfflrrt.

(also pffllrrrt.)  n.  a “disgusting” bodily sound, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.

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