poofter

noun

1. (Australia, Commonwealth, New-Zealand, Papua-New-Guinea, derogatory, slang, vulgar)A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.

   “Another man told me he was a "poofter," but I never was able to get a definition of this word from him.”

   “Hallucinations, again, are the expression of repressed systems of ideas and desires; for example a man who has strong repressed homo-sexual tendencies may hear voices calling him a poofter.”

   “"You pommy poofter. You give me any more of that liberal crap and I'll have your balls for a bow tie." Bond said mildly, "What's a poofter?" "What you'd call a pansy. No," Dikko Henderson got to his feet and fired a string of what sounded like lucid Japanese at the man behind the bar,[…].”

   “I just ignored them because I didn't think what I did made me a poofter. Me and Dwayne were best friends, and it was only because there were no girls around, and I liked it. My father taught me that homosexuality was unnatural, and that poofters were men who couldn't form relationships with women because they were horrifying, repulsive queers.”

2. (Australia, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang)A pansy, an effeminate man.