pfft

alternative pft

1. Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.

   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.

2. Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.

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   “[…] 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.

   2018, Tommy Orange, “Orvil Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 125

3. onomatopoeicUsed to signify a puffing sound.
4. onomatopoeicThe sound of a short fart.

plural pffts · alternative pft

1. A short puffing sound.

   "Are we talking a delicate little Scandinavian pfft, or the whole raspberry tart?"

   2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 28