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English
Pronunciation
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
Chinese
Etymology
From clipping of English physics.
Pronunciation
Noun
phy
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) physics
See also
Latin
Pronunciation
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.