[puːf], (Interjection)

Definitions:
- used to describe a sudden disappearance
(e.g: once you've used it, poof—it's gone)

- used to express contemptuous dismissal
(e.g: ‘Oh, poof!’ said Will. ‘You say that every year.’)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century: symbolic

[puːf], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a gay man


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of the archaic noun puff in the sense ‘braggart’