2024年12月6日 · The best that human language can do is to imitate - attempt onomatopoeia - but even then human voice limitations prevent anything that is accurate enough to be definitive; e.g. birdsong, cries of pain or pleasure, the sound of waves hitting a beach. All these- and hoo-wee is one of them -are spelled the way the writer imagines them.

2017年5月5日 · pugh interjection \a strongly articulated p-sound sometimes trilled & sometimes with a vowel sound following; usually read as ˈpü\ Definition of pugh —used to express disgust or disdain

2016年9月11日 · My question: did whew represent the same whistle as phew? – Peter Shor . Commented Sep 11, 2016 at 17:11. 2.

"What does {holding nose} P.U. mean?" my son asked me tonight. I told him I didn't know, and he laughed and said "It means stinky, Mommy!" Very funny and well said, but it left me wondering. A ...

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2020年3月25日 · Whee!" in response to every question people asked him about what was wrong with him—until a doctor "gave the customary treatment for whistleitis" (presumably an emetic). The punchline of the story is that the kid responds to the treatment by saying "Whee-ew!" which suggests that "whew" has probably been an interjection in English longer than ...

2012年3月5日 · Given these are primarily spoken forms, and that ordinarily we're only going to apply one of the two possible contractions, I imagine we tend to just apply the first one because it comes first - by the time we get to the second one it's just too late to get a look-in.

2016年4月14日 · The term ‘wee’ is often used similarly, although equally it can also simply mean literally ‘small’. ‘Have a wee seat’ could be smoothly rephrased in England as ‘have a little rest’. (‘Small’ would sound really odd in that sentence.) The wee-ness is something to do with being personally concerned for you. We might also say ...

2019年8月30日 · Is there a name for the action of furiously typing a random string on the keyboard? keyboard mashing. Keyboard Mashing is, essentially the result of someone mashing their keyboard in certain circumstances.

Both of these refer to the future, and both are correct and can be used in any situation. However, there is a slight difference between "will be" and "will".