phy

See also: Phy and PHY

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faɪ/

Noun

phy (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The drug physeptone.
    • 1996, Fortnight, numbers 346-356, page 23:
      "The phy is doing me in", she says []
    • 2015, Julie O'Toole, Heroin: A story of drug addiction, hope and triumph:
      Phy is much harder to come off than heroin.

See also

  • phy ed (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English physics.

Pronunciation

Noun

phy

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) physics

See also

Latin

Pronunciation

Interjection

phȳ

  1. pish!

References

  • phy”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • phy”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • phy in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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