pfft
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of pfft
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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“O.J. gets right on top of you, looks you in the eye and then — pfft — he’s gone,” former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Joe Greene told Newsweek in 1975.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
It probably helped that by the time Cooper fils came of age, the Vanderbilt fortune, once among the greatest in American plutocracy, had pretty much gone pfft.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
It all went pfft — there was no legitimate NFT.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2021
A halibut fillet, a tiny pyramid of goats' cheese, a bunch of grapes … pfft!
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012
Buford the mechanical table sat in the corner on sleep mode, making little steamy snores: Shhhy pfft, shh, pfft.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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