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Plew vs Phew - What's the difference?

plew | phew |

As a noun plew

is (north america) beaver pelt.

As an interjection phew is

used to show relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust.

plew

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (North America) beaver pelt
  • * 1967 , John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement , page 96
    • The cured "plew " of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous
  • * 2001 , Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe page 7
  • *:"The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.
  • * 2005 , Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier , Page 46
    • The price for a pint was a beaver plew' or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a '''plew''' or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen ' plews apiece,

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    phew

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Used to show relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust.
  • * Phew , that took a long time to define!

    • See also

    * whew *