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pooves

pooves is the plural of poove.

pooves is the plural of poof.

Meaning of poove

Noun

poove (plural pooves)

  1. (derogatory, rare, slang) Synonym of poof (“male homosexual”).
    Synonyms:
    poof

Meaning of poof

Noun (1)

poof (plural poofs)

  1. The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.

Noun (2)

poof (plural poofs or (less common) pooves)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, derogatory) A gay man; especially one who is irritating or contemptible.
    • He recalls how everybody got called a ‘poof’ at Forrester High School in the seventies. Back then, only ‘wanker’ possibly rivalled it as the most common term of abuse. But The Poof was the Poof.2015, Irvine Welsh, A Decent Ride, Random House, →ISBN, page 21

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Questions about pooves

What is pooves the plural of?
Pooves is the plural of poove.

Words near pooves in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pooves (page history and authors); poove (page history and authors); poof (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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