tfui
English
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[edit]tfui
- representative of the sound of spitting
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 28:
- "Business is business, but this man, captain, he make me very sick. Tfui!"
- 1952, Sholem Aleichem, Wandering Star, page 43:
- Tfui. Tfui. Tfui. She spit softly three times to ward off the evil eye, then lay down again moaning and twisting, trying to find sleep[.]