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pooftah

pooftah is the alternative spelling of poofter.

Meaning of poofter

Noun

poofter (plural poofters)

  1. (Australia, Commonwealth, New Zealand, Papua-New-Guinea, derogatory, slang) 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.1908 November 20, Sydney Montgomery, “Paranoia with some Cases”, in Australasian Medical Gazette, volume 27, number 11, Australasian Medical Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 598–602
    Synonyms:
    faggot, poof
  2. (Australia, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.
    Synonyms:
    cockney

Forms of pooftah

pluralpooftahs
alternative formpoofta

Questions about pooftah

What is pooftah the alternative spelling of?
Pooftah is the alternative spelling of poofter.

Words near pooftah in the dictionary

  1. poofoundlands
  2. poofs
  3. poofster
  4. poofsters
  5. poofta
  6. pooftah
  7. pooftahs
  8. pooftas
  9. poofteenth
  10. poofter
  11. poofterdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pooftah (page history and authors); poofter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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