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語源 1

Onomatopoeic.

間投詞

phut

1. A representation of the sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas; a representation of the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.
   • 1867, George Manyille Fenn, “A Horror of Horrors”, in Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches For The Season, Lodnon: George Routledge and Sons, page 94:

     So I brought out two or three conjuring tricks that I had purchased in town, and Broxby showed them off while I tried to play one or two tricks with cards; but, somehow or another, when Mrs. Major Carruthers drew a card, I had forgotten the trick, and she had to draw another card which she dropped; and, when it was on the carpet, we both stooped together to pick it up; and you've no idea how confusing it was, for we knocked our heads together, when I distinctly heard some one go "Phut" in precisely the same way as a turkey-cock will when strutting; when, to my intense dismay, I again found that the Major was scowling at me fiercely.

   • 1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 100:

     "Phut." Something whipped into the ground beside him and there was a pinpoint flash from the cabin. "B-o-i-n-g-g-g." There was another flash and the bullet hit the rail and whined off into the night.

   • 2007, Susan Gates, Beyond the Billboard:

     Then she heard the phut-phut-phut of an unfamiliar boat engine.

名詞

phut (plural phuts)

1. The sound made by a sudden release of steam or gas; the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.
   • 1953, Ian Fleming, “A Crag-like Face”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 129:

     There was a sharp ‘phut’, no louder than a bubble of air escaping from a tube of toothpaste. No other noise at all, and suddenly Le Chiffre had grown another eye, a third eye on a level with the other two, right where the thick nose started to jut out below the forehead.

   • 1980, Gillian Cooke, A Celebration of Christmas:

     Even an expensive cracker can go off with a phut, not a bang, and burst to reveal one paper hat, one tired motto and a piece of plastic jewellery.

動詞

phut (third-person singular simple present phuts, present participle phutting, simple past and past participle phutted)

1. To produce such a sound.

派生語

• go phut

語源 2

From Polish fiut / Polish fjut, ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.

発音

• enPR: fo͝ot, IPA: /fʊt/

名詞

phut (uncountable)

1. A Polish type of syrup made of sugar beet juice.