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pft

pft is the alternative form of pfft.

Meaning of pfft

Interjection

  1. Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.
    • You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways
  2. Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.
    • “[…] You remember that lump I got? I felt something poking out of it. So I pulled, like, I just pulled one out, put it on some folded-up toilet paper, then went back in and got another one. Then one more after that. I’m pretty sure they’re spider legs,” Orvil says. ¶ “Pfffffft,” Loother says and...2018, Tommy Orange, “Orvil Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 125
  3. (onomatopoeic) Used to signify a puffing sound.
  4. (onomatopoeic) The sound of a short fart.

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Noun capitalized: PFT

PFT (plural PFTs)

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of physical fitness test.
    • Successful completion of the PFT ensures that all new hire DRO law enforcement officers are at a minimally acceptable level of physical fitness to meet the physical demands of mandatory training and the performance of job duties.2007 May, “Preemployment Physical Fitness Test for Law Enforcement Officer Positions Within the Office of Detention and Removal”, in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, archived from...
    • He could be the worst marine ever—he could be fat and nasty, and I could be running a perfect PFT.2010, Laura Browder, Sascha Pflaeging, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 137

Forms of pft

pluralPFTs

Questions about pft

What is pft the alternative form of?
Pft is the alternative form of pfft.
What part of speech is pft?
Pft is a noun.
What is the plural of pft?
The plural of pft is PFTs.

Words near pft in the dictionary

  1. PFPA
  2. pfps
  3. Pfronten
  4. pfropfschizophrenie
  5. PFS
  6. pft
  7. PFTAIRE
  8. pfte.
  9. pftes.
  10. PFTs
  11. pfu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pft (page history and authors); PFT (page history and authors); pfft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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