PU

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"

Translingual

Symbol

PU

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands from 1974 to 1986.

   Synonym: PUS (alpha-3)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

English

Alternative forms

• P.U., P. U.

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

Noun

PU (plural PUs)

1. (computing) Initialism of processing unit.
2. (linguistics) Initialism of prosodic unit. (IU for intonation unit is preferred)
3. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyurethane.
4. Initialism of power unit.
5. Initialism of penalty unit.
6. (Internet slang) Initialism of pickup. (as in pickup artist)

Hyponyms

computing

• CPU
• GPU
• NPU
• PPU
• SPU
• TPU
• VPU

 

computing

• DSP
• FPGA
• SPE

 

Interjection

PU

1. (slang) Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.
   • 1994 February 28, zombie, “Future Images”, in rec.arts.comics.misc‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

     IMO, this stinks. PU.

   • 1997 February 19, K.A.J., “PU, whats that smell......”, in rec.equestrian‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

   • 1999 April 7, Thomas Mac Donald, “99 Interior Smell - PU”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

   • 2000 March 19, thunde...@webtv.net, “PU WHO CUT THE FRIKIN CHEESE?”, in alt.cheese‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

     THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS
     PU

   • 2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english‎^[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

     Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.

   • 2000 October 7, Samuel Sands, “Truck”, in atl.arno‎^[6] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

     PU? As in Stinks? :^)
     Sam (Pee Euw) Sands

See also

• (polyurethane): ePTFE

References

• PU on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• U.P., UP, up, up-

Indonesian

Noun

PU

1. Initialism of pekerjaan umum (“public works”).

Spanish

Proper noun

PU m

1. Abbreviation of Puebla. (Mexican state)