Taxonomy vs Poofter - What's the difference?
taxonomy | poofter |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(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 nouns the difference between taxonomy and poofter
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while poofter is (uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|pejorative|slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one; a pansy.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologypoofter
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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.