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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: Perhaps from puffy

poofy

 adjective
     
poof‧y
1 American English poofy hair or clothes look big and soft or filled with air:
a blouse with big poofy sleeves
2 British English informal not polite an offensive word meaning typical of a homosexual man
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