Meanings
- representative of the sound of spitting
"Business is business, but this man, captain, he make me very sick. Tfui!"
1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 281 more example
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[.]
1952, Sholem Aleichem, Wandering Star, page 43
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