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語源

Imitative. But there is also the Ancient Greek πτύω, to spit, which is in Mark 7:33:

発音

• IPA: [p͡tʰ], [p͡tʰə̥]
• (spoken) IPA: /p(ə)ˈtuː.i/

間投詞

ptui

1. The sound of spitting.
   • 1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new:

     I 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 Swee:

     She 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.

参考

• hawk tuah

アナグラム

• Tupi, puit, tipu