Meaning of poofter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
   Australia, Commonwealth, New-Zealand, Papua-New-Guinea, derogatory, slang, vulgar
2. A pansy, an effeminate man.
   Australia, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang

Examples

“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.”

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