poof
noun/pʊf/
/pʊf/
(also poofter
(British English, taboo, offensive, slang)/ˈpʊftə(r)/
/ˈpʊftər/
)- an offensive word for a gay manWord Originnoun mid 19th cent.: perhaps an alteration of the archaic noun puff in the sense ‘braggart’.
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