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Pouf Person N Offensive Gay Effeminate Man  The

Word pouf (of a person)
Definition n. (offensive) A gay or effeminate man.
Sentence ‘If you'd just been a pouf the priest could have talked to you or one of us could have battered it out of you. But what the hell can anybody do about a writer?’
Source The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, loc. 2310

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