Ptui

Origin

Imitative.

Full definition of ptui

Interjection

1. The sound of spitting.
• 1959, Lewis Meyer, Preposterous papaNeedless spitting and ptui-ptui-ptui-ing bothered me.
• 1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and newI wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui, ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.
• 1991, Anne Siew Kim Lim, Face to face: the street children of Bukit Ho SweeShe would go 'Ptui! Ptui! Ptui!' and seem to reinforce her curses (in a language as colourful as that of the boys') by stamping on her own spittle.

Anagrams

• Tupi