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phy

/faɪ/

phy noun: the drug physeptone.

Noun (1)

phy (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The drug physeptone.
    • "The phy is doing me in", she says […]1996, Fortnight, numbers 346-356, page 23
    • Phy is much harder to come off than heroin.2015, Julie O'Toole, Heroin: A story of drug addiction, hope and triumph

Noun (2) capitalized: PHY

PHY (plural PHYs or PHY's)

  1. An electronic circuit implementing the physical layer of the OSI model.

Proper noun capitalized: Phy

Phy (plural Phys)

  1. A surname.

phy meaning in Tamil

phy in Tamil

உடல்

Forms of phy

Noun
pluralPHYs
pluralPHY's
Proper noun
pluralPhys

Origin of phy

Derived from Khmer ភី (phii).

Questions about phy

What does phy mean?
Phy means the drug physeptone.
What is phy in Tamil?
Phy in Tamil is உடல். See Phy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is phy?
Phy can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce phy?
Phy is pronounced /faɪ/.
What is the plural of phy?
The plural of phy is PHYs.

Words near phy in the dictionary

  1. phwoared
  2. phwoaring
  3. phwoarr
  4. phwoars
  5. Phx.
  6. phy
  7. phy ed
  8. phychical
  9. phychostimulant
  10. phycid
  11. phycids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phy (page history and authors); PHY (page history and authors); Phy (page history and authors); phy (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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