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pfft

interjectionnounattested in dialogue

  • /[p͡ɸːt]/

Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.

interjection

  1. 1

    Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.

    1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.

  2. 2

    Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.

    “[…] You remember that lump I got? I felt something poking out of it. So I pulled, like, I just pulled one out, put it on some folded-up toilet paper, then went back in and got another one. Then one more after that. I’m pretty sure they’re spider legs,” Orvil says. ¶ “Pfffffft,” Loother says and laughs. At which point Orvil shows him a neat pile of folds of toilet paper.

  3. 3

    Used to signify a puffing sound.

  4. 4

    The sound of a short fart.

noun

  1. 1

    A short puffing sound.

    "Are we talking a delicate little Scandinavian pfft, or the whole raspberry tart?"

Forms

plural
pffts
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).