phooey

phooey
/fooh"ee/, interj. Informal.
(an exclamation indicating rejection, contempt, or disgust): Phooey on all those political promises!
[1925-30, Amer.; perh. < G pfui! expression of disgust, conflated with E phoo! with similar force]

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