英语词汇phooey的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	phooey
词源	phooey. Phooey, as an expression of disgust, is first attested to as recently as 1929 in America and derives from the German-Yiddish phui, which seems to be an imitation of the sound of spitting. Most languages have similar throat-clearing sounds for words expressing disgust, these foreign phooey syn- onyms including the Italian uffa, the French pfutt, or fi, and the Spanish hay. For some reason the ancient Romans em- ployed pro.
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