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pua¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hindi पुआ (puā).

noun puas

  1. countable, uncountable A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.

pua²

noun puas

  1. A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

Pua³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Pua, from Hokkien 潘 (Phoaⁿ).

proper noun Puas

  1. Philippines A surname from Hokkien.

PUA⁴

noun PUAs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of pickup artist Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of potentially unwanted application
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).

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noun sweet Indian cake

हिन्दीपुआ puā

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"pua." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pua. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

pua. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pua

Chicago

"pua." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pua.

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@misc{pua_2026,
  title = {pua},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pua},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}