Meaning of pfft | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.
2. Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.
3. Used to signify a puffing sound.
   onomatopoeic
4. The sound of a short fart.
   onomatopoeic

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Examples

“1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.”

““[…] 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 laughs. At which point Orvil shows him a neat pile of folds of toilet paper.”

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