Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Scylla and Charybdis/178


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Pfuiteufel !     (German) Pfui is the German for fie! and Teufel means Devil. Together, Pfui Teufel! means Disgusting! Yuck! Ugh! Ew![1] I have not found a German instance in which the two words are yoked together as here.[2]

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  1. Gifford (1988) 198.
  2. Pfui Teufel.
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