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pooie

pooie is the alternative form of ptui.

Meaning of ptui

Interjection

  1. The sound of spitting.
    • I wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui, ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new

Questions about pooie

What is pooie the alternative form of?
Pooie is the alternative form of ptui.

Words near pooie in the dictionary

  1. poohs
  2. Poohsticks
  3. pooi
  4. pooid
  5. pooids
  6. pooie
  7. pooier
  8. pooiest
  9. pooing
  10. pooja
  11. poojah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pooie (page history and authors); ptui (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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