Poofier vs Poofter - What's the difference?
poofier | poofter |
(poofy)
(slang) Of or pertaining to something that is puffy, filled with air, inflated.
Something that can make a poofing sound.
(derogatory, slang) Pertaining to, or describing homosexual behaviour or culture
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, pejorative, slang) A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one; a pansy.
* 1943 , John Bostock and Evan Jones, The nervous soldier: a handbook for the prevention, detection and treatment of nervous invalidity in war ,
* 1964 , Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice ,
* 2007 , John Mendoza, Mad Blue Smoke , Pasini Press, Melbourne, Australia,
As an adjective poofier
is (poofy).As a noun poofter is
(uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|pejorative|slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one; a pansy.poofier
English
Adjective
(head)poofy
English
Etymology 1
Probably a blend of poof'' and ''puffy.Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
poof'' + ''-yAdjective
(er)See also
* foofy English blendspoofter
English
Alternative forms
* poofta * pooftahNoun
(en noun)page 11,
- Hallucinations, again, are the expression of repressed systems of ideas and desires; for example a man who has strong repressed homo-sexual tendencies may hear voices calling him a poofter .
page 36,
- "You pommy poofter'. You give me any more of that liberal crap and I'll have your balls for a bow tie." Bond said mildly, "What's a ' poofter ?" "What you'd call a pansy. No," Dikko Henderson got to his feet and fired a string of what sounded like lucid Japanese at the man behind the bar,.
page 113,
- I just ignored them because I didn't think what I did made me a poofter'. Me and Dwayne were best friends, and it was only because there were no girls around, and I liked it. My father taught me that homosexuality was unnatural, and that ' poofters were men who couldn't form relationships with women because they were horrifying, repulsive queers.