ptooey
ptooey
1. An onomatopoeia of the sound of spitting. The silence was only broken by the ptooeys of cowboys spitting out their chewing tobacco. I stood on the bridge above the bully and—ptooey!—shot a glob of phlegm down on top of him.
2. An exclamation of disgust or disdain, whether physical or moral. (As if the thing in question must be spat out). They want us to give up our weekends to finish this project? Ptooey, we say! Yuck, they put broccoli on my pizza! Ptooey!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- ptooie
- spit
- be the spitting image of (one)
- spitting image
- the spitting image
- the spitting image of (one)
- spitting distance
- spit chips
- spit feathers
- be spitting feathers