ext_39907: The Clydesdale Librarian (Default)
Altivo ([identity profile] altivo.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] altivo 2006-01-11 03:02 pm (UTC)

I'm confident that puff and poof are the same word, arriving via different routes from a common source (probably French.) And the connotation of "effeminate male" for "poof" shows that. Such men are sometimes called "cream puffs" over here.
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