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ptooie

ptooie 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 ptooie

What is ptooie the alternative form of?
Ptooie is the alternative form of ptui.

Words near ptooie in the dictionary

  1. ptomaine
  2. ptomaines
  3. ptomains
  4. ptomatropine
  5. ptooey
  6. ptooie
  7. PTOs
  8. ptosed
  9. ptoses
  10. ptosis
  11. ptosyl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ptooie (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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