Poof

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early 19th century: symbolic.


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Onomatopoeic. See also  puff. 

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poof (n.1)

sound of a puff of breath or air, 1824, imitative.




poof (n.2)

"effeminate man, male homosexual," c. 1850, perhaps a corruption of puff. The Australian extended form poofter is attested from 1910.