phy

See also: Phy and PHY

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faɪ/

Noun

phy (uncountable)

(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

HYP, hyp, hyp-, hyp.

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English physics.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): fi¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fi¹
  - Yale: fī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fiː⁵⁵/

Noun

phy

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) physics

See also

phy chem bio

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰyː/, [pʰyː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi/, [fiː]

Interjection

phȳ

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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