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Ptui vs Tui - What's the difference?

ptui | tui |

As an interjection ptui

is the sound of spitting.

As a noun tui is

a New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

ptui

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • The sound of spitting.
  • * 1959 , Lewis Meyer, Preposterous papa
    • Needless spitting and ptui -ptui-ptui-ing bothered me.
  • * 1974 , Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new
    • I wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui , ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.
  • * 1991 , Anne Siew Kim Lim, Face to face: the street children of Bukit Ho Swee
    • She would go 'Ptui ! Ptui! Ptui!' and seem to reinforce her curses (in a language as colourful as that of the boys') by stamping on her own spittle.

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    tui

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

    • Synonyms

    * parson bird

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