pfft.

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


interj.  a scolding expression.

<“Oh, cut the self-pity,” Egg roared.  “I haven’t got the stomach for it.  You’ve lived a long, healthy life and worked hard at something you liked.  That’s more than most people get.  Now here you sit like a toad in a well crying, ‘Woe is me.’  Pfft!  It’s time to stop the pity party.  Get off your butt and go outside.  It’s a marvelous fall day.  The birds are singing, the critters are fat, the sun is shining, and the world is turning.”  —Stephen Coonts, Saucer: The Conquest.>

interj.  a sound capable of dismissing an entire topic of a conversation, as in the novel Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn.

<“For I told him something, just now, that, if it were to get around, would make me very unpopular in England.”  “Pfft!” said Jean Bart, and rolled his eyes, dispensing with the entire subject of England.  —Neal Stephenson, The Confusion.> <I lied and told her one of her precious Lennon sisters—Diane, the oldest, her favorite—was having an illegitimate baby.  “Pfft,” she said, flicking away the possibility with the flap of her wrist.  —Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone.>

interj.  an exclamation of disgust.

<[N]ow he was completely alone in a prison of self-pity and doubt.  “Pfft,” he exclaimed in disgust, exhaling all the fear and frustration he had been brewing in his cauldron of ire.  —George Parker, The Atomic Kid: Adventures in the Antiworld.>

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