Poof

The term poof can be used in several ways:

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• as a British English term for a a large footstool (from the French word "pouf").
• as a name for bucky or English term for a gay man. See also British slang, faggot (slang).
• as a term for an act of disappearance
• as a term for something fluffy.

It is thought that the etymology probably derives from puff.

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