ptui

Imitative But there is also the Ancient Greek πτύω, to spit, which is in Mark 7:33:

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

ptui

The sound of spitting.
- 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.

sound of spitting

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