PU

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"

Translingual

Symbol

PU

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands from 1974 to 1986.

   Synonym: PUS (alpha-3)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

English

Alternative forms

• P.U., P. U.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

PU

1. Abbreviation of Punjab: a state of India.

Noun

PU (countable and uncountable, plural PUs)

1. (computing) Initialism of processing unit.
2. (linguistics) Initialism of prosodic unit (IU for intonation unit is preferred).
3. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyurethane.
4. Initialism of power unit.
5. Initialism of penalty unit.
6. (Internet slang) Initialism of pickup (as in pickup artist).
7. (broadcasting) Initialism of pickup.

Hyponyms

computing

• CPU
• GPU
• NPU
• PPU
• SPU
• TPU
• VPU

computing

• DSP
• FPGA
• SPE

Interjection

PU

1. (slang) Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.
   • 1994 February 28, zombie, “Future Images”, in rec.arts.comics.misc‎ (Usenet), retrieved 20 June 2022:

     IMO, this stinks. PU.

   • 1997 February 19, K.A.J., “PU, whats that smell......”, in rec.equestrian‎ (Usenet), retrieved 20 June 2022:
   • 1999 April 7, Thomas Mac Donald, “99 Interior Smell - PU”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata‎ (Usenet), retrieved 20 June 2022:
   • 2000 March 19, [e-mail], “PU WHO CUT THE FRIKIN CHEESE?”, in alt.cheese‎ (Usenet), retrieved 20 June 2022:

     THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS
     PU

   • 2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english‎ (Usenet), retrieved 20 June 2022:

     Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.

   • 2000 October 7, Samuel Sands, “Truck”, in atl.arno‎ (Usenet), retrieved 20 June 2022:

     PU? As in Stinks? :^)
     Sam (Pee Euw) Sands

See also

• (polyurethane): ePTFE

References

• PU on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• U.P., UP, up, up-

German

Proper noun

PU f pl (proper noun, plural only)

1. initialism of Philosophische Untersuchungen

Indonesian

Noun

PU

1. initialism of pekerjaan umum (“public works”)

Japanese

Etymology

Abbreviation derived from the original English spelling of pick up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʲik̚kɯ̟a̠p̚pɯ̟]

Noun

PU(ピックアップ) • (pikkuappu) 

1. (chiefly video games) alternative spelling of ピックアップ (pikku-appu)

Verb

PU(ピックアップ)する • (pikkuappu suru) suru (stem PU(ピックアップ)し (pikkuappu shi), past PU(ピックアップ)した (pikkuappu shita))

1. (chiefly video games) alternative spelling of ピックアップする (pikku-appu suru)

Conjugation

Conjugation of "PUする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	PUし	ピックアップし	pikkuappu shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	PUし	ピックアップし	pikkuappu shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	PUする	ピックアップする	pikkuappu suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	PUする	ピックアップする	pikkuappu suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	PUすれ	ピックアップすれ	pikkuappu sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	PUせよ¹ PUしろ²	ピックアップせよ¹ ピックアップしろ²	pikkuappu seyo¹ pikkuappu shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	PUされる	ピックアップされる	pikkuappu sareru
Causative	PUさせる PUさす	ピックアップさせる ピックアップさす	pikkuappu saseru pikkuappu sasu
Potential	PUできる	ピックアップできる	pikkuappu dekiru
Volitional	PUしよう	ピックアップしよう	pikkuappu shiyō
Negative	PUしない	ピックアップしない	pikkuappu shinai
Negative continuative	PUせず	ピックアップせず	pikkuappu sezu
Formal	PUします	ピックアップします	pikkuappu shimasu
Perfective	PUした	ピックアップした	pikkuappu shita
Conjunctive	PUして	ピックアップして	pikkuappu shite
Hypothetical conditional	PUすれば	ピックアップすれば	pikkuappu sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

Spanish

Proper noun

PU m

1. abbreviation of Puebla: a state of Mexico