pfft.

adj.  ruined; kaput.

<[The kiln] must be watched like a hawk, because if the temperature is wrong, then—pfft!  “Pfft?”  “Yes, pfft!  Pots, work, everything ruined.  Twenty degrees either way and two months of work in shards!”  —Sabin Willett, Present Value: A Novel.> <She had been secretly seeing another performer and obviously her husband had found out and her husband had guided her career and now it was all pfft.  —William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade.>

adv.  broken up.

<[T]o sum it all up, the engagement went pfft.  —Selma Eichler, Murder Can Rain on Your Shower.>

adv.  immediately.

<You’ll do fine if you just keep the rules in mind.  Break any of them, though, and pfft, you’re right back here, and you’ll be dealing with John, instead of me.  —Jenna McKnight, A Date on Cloud Nine.>

interj.  a disdainful sound, as in the biography Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century by Charles Shaar Murray.

<This town.  Pfft!  Very bad place.  —Tabor Evans, Longarm 299: Longarm and Maximilian’s Gold.>

interj.  a scoff, as in the novel Family Resemblance by Tanya Maria Barrientos.

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