poofter
(Commonwealth, chiefly, Australia, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.
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(Commonwealth, chiefly, Australia, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.
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.
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(Commonwealth, chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
Another man told me he was a "poofter," but I never was able to get a definition of this word from him.
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(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, slang, offensive) homosexuality.
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(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, pejorative, slang) The state of being a poofter.
- woolly woofter73%
(UK, AU, NZ, Cockney rhyming slang) A male homosexual; poofter.
- woolly woofter66%
(UK, AU, NZ) A cowardly or foolish person.