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ptew

ptew 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 ptew

What is ptew the alternative form of?
Ptew is the alternative form of ptui.

Words near ptew in the dictionary

  1. pterylological
  2. pterylology
  3. pteryloses
  4. pterylosis
  5. ptesculentoside
  6. ptew
  7. PTF
  8. PTFE
  9. PTFEs
  10. PTFs
  11. ptg.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ptew (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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