phy

ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

phy: interj.,
I pish! tush! Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 58; cf. Prisc. p. 1024 P.

phy, fy, phī ou fī, interj. d’admiration, ah ! oh, oh ! diantre ! peste ! : Ter. Ad. 412 ; Diom. 419, 10 ; Prisc. Gramm. 15, 41.