Poofter

Quick meaning: Poofter is a noun meaning (Commonwealth, chiefly Australia, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.

Meaning

(Commonwealth, chiefly Australia, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.

More Meanings

1. (Commonwealth, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.

Example Sentences

Another man told me he was a "poofter," but I never was able to get a definition of this word from him.

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.

"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,[…].

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.

Word Forms

• poofters
• poof
• poofster
• poofta
• pooftah

Synonyms for poofter

Depending on context, synonyms include omi-palone, cockney, pansy, sissy, faggot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include poofta, pooftah, poufter, poofster, poofterism, poofterhood.

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