interjection
- An exclamation representing the sound of spitting or expelling something from the mouth.
Usage: informal; onomatopoeia
verb
- To spit or make a spitting sound.
Usage: informal; often used humorously or in comic contexts
Examples
- He tasted the medicine and went 'ptooey!' before spitting it out.
- The character in the cartoon ptooey'd across the room.
- Ptooey! That tastes awful!
- She ptooey'd the sunflower seed into the trash.
- The old prospector would ptooey into the dust whenever he got angry.