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phut, int. (adv., n.)|fʌt|
Also fut.
[Echoic, but cf. Hindi and Urdu phatnā to split or burst.]
An imitation of a dull, abrupt sound, esp. that of a firearm. Phr. to go phut: to come to a sudden end; to break down, cease to function. Also as n., the sound of something ‘going phut’.
1888Kipling Story of Gadsbys (1889) 55 The whole thing went phut. She wrote to say that there had been a mistake. 1892― & Balestier Naulahka 259 The hospital has all gone phut. 1898Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 143 Thud! went the first gun, and phutt! came faintly back, as its shell burst on the zariba. 1898J. M. Falkner Moonfleet ix. 125 There came a flash of fire..and a fut, fut, fut, of bullets in the turf. 1905Blackw. Mag. July 57/2 1908 A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger III. iii. 150 The plans..have all gone fut. 1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 242 He will sometimes hear the rattle of a mysterious machine-gun, or even the phut of a bullet. 1917W. J. Locke Red Planet xiii. 156 There's a limit to the power of bearing strain. As soon as you feel you're likely to go fut, throw it all up and come and see me. 1918A. Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell 47 ‘It's a lie!’ Foe was on his legs, and he fairly shouted it. Shell-shock? Phut!—It exploded right at our feet below the platform. 1919G. Page Veldt Trail i. 10 The carburetter went fut yesterday. 1921Punch 30 Nov. 429/1 Send me a subject with a bit more pep in it or the Club will go phut. 1923Daily Mail 22 Jan. 8 He stood to lose some enormous number of millions of marks if Germany went phut. 1926S. Horler Order of Octopus 238 Now that this pet stunt..had gone phut. 1931E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia x. 270 She'd still have been terribly interested in life till she went phut. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 24 Nov. 7/3 The kids had broken a window, and the colour television had gone phut. 1973H. Carvic Miss Seeton Sings (1974) 72 The trigger pulled and—phut, the enemy dropped dead. Ibid. 83 Never before had this place been used for target practice, with things that went phut. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xxi. 164 It was a bomb... But when it went off it was only like some kind of firecracker, just, you know—phut!—and that was it.
Hence phut v. intr., to land with an abrupt sound; of a bullet: to land with a dull abrupt sound; to ‘go phut’, to cease to function.
1901Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 2/1 The bullets..came more thickly now, squealing over our heads and futting on the ground between the horses' hoofs. 1916G. Frankau Guns 26 Waking, they know the instant foe, the bullets phutting by. 1959J. Verney Friday's Tunnel xxvii. 250 He and Robin..got inside last night, only the torch phutted. |