phut
/fʌt
/exclamation
Used to represent a dull abrupt sound as of a slight impact or explosion: thunderbolts go out, phut, like candles...
- We've all been there - you've just spent the last five hours carefully crafting a document or article then phut!
- Mind you, there is also the occasional phut, phut, phut to be heard.
- With a phut from the silenced rifle, the 5.56 mm nano-shell entered through the Crab's eye.
Phrases
go phut
Origin
Late 19th century: perhaps from Hindi phaṭnā 'to burst'.