PU!

[D. Ezra Johnson]

>From: Julia Van Nutt <cobtown at MINDSPRING.COM>

>No doubt, it is derived from "phew!"

Is there any chance that it derives instead from the French _puer_ meaning
"to stink, smell"?

After all, cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew was/is French... Maybe that was a
bilingual joke of sorts...


DEJ

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