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poovery

poovery is the alternative form of poofery.

Meaning of poofery

Noun

poofery (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Behaviour characteristic of homosexuals.
    • He wore a black, embroidered smoking jacket, over his shirt which was all ruffles and poofery, particularly the flaring, foppish cuffs, which looked like doily sweatbands, or garter belts for the wrist.2003, Larry Keveson, Before We Croak!, page 85

Questions about poovery

What is poovery the alternative form of?
Poovery is the alternative form of poofery.

Words near poovery in the dictionary

  1. poots
  2. Pootung
  3. pooty
  4. Pooty-Poot
  5. poove
  6. poovery
  7. pooves
  8. Poovey
  9. Pooveys
  10. poovy
  11. Poowong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poovery (page history and authors); poofery (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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