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Spitting vs Ptui - What's the difference?

spitting | ptui |

As a verb spitting

is .

As a noun spitting

is (chiefly|archaic|medicine) expectoration.

As an interjection ptui is

the sound of spitting.

spitting

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, archaic, medicine) expectoration
  • * 1837 , James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31 (page 44)
    • Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting ; all of them were stone-workers.

    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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