puh

puh

1. Alternative form of pugh.
   • 2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82:

     He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!

• (expressing contempt): feh, pht, pish, poh, pshaw; see also Thesaurus:bah
• (expressing disgust): bleah, eww, ick, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck

• puh-lease, puh-leeze

• “puh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• PHU, Phu, UHP, hup

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sbal (“frog”).

• (Myanmar) /pu˦˧/
• (Longchuan) [pʰɔ³¹]

puh

1. frog

• zo puh

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, pages 109-110

An onomatopoeia: the sound of rapid exhalation.

Used to express emotion beyond compare to the point of which there are no words to describe the setting.

• IPA^(key): /puː/, [pʰuː]

puh!

1. pooh (expression of dismissal or contempt‚ used when encountering an unpleasant smell)
2. phew (used to show relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust)

• (show disgust): ad, bvadr, føj, puha, puh ha
• (show fatigue): puha, puh ha
• (show relief): puha, puh ha, pyh

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuh/, [ˈpuh]
• Rhymes: -uh
• Syllabification^(key): puh
• Hyphenation^(key): puh

puh

1. alternative form of puuh

• “puh”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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puh!

1. phew!

• “puh” in Duden online

puh

1. romanization of ꦥꦸꦃ

puh (Raguileo spelling)

1. night

puh

1. yuck (expression of disgust)

   Synonym: eca

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьlxъ.

• IPA^(key): /pûx/

pȕh m anim (Cyrillic spelling пу̏х)

1. dormouse

Onomatopoeic

puh

1. phew (expressing tiredness)

   Synonym: pust

   Puh vad jobbigt det är att bära ved

   Phew, carrying firewood is hard work

2. phew (expressing relief)

   Puh, vi hann fram i tid!

   Phew, we made it in time!

• andas ut
• fy

• puh in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• puh in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• puh in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)