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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

woofter n.

also willie woofter, willy woofter, wolly woofter, woolly woof, woolly woofta, woolly woofter

[var. on poofter n.]

a male homosexual.

1958		C. Lee diary 6 May in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 110: The Yank had tried to bag off with Rose [...] I said, I thought you said he was a woofter.
1982		G. Newbold Big Huey 128: ‘Anything’s a go’, they used to say in Pare, and I was inclined to think that getting it off with a woolly woofter might be a go for me. [Ibid.] 132: Mata was going with one of the woolly woofs himself.
1995		Sydney Star Observer 9 Feb. 16/2: If you must be a rampaging woolly-woofter, please don’t bother Wilf Hogan of Telarah.
1997		M. Walters Echo 164: Terry threw an anguished glance over his shoulder at Deacon which clearly said, This old guy’s got his hand in mine, and I think he’s a fucking woofter.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: Willy Woofter rhym. slang Poofter.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 204/1: woolly woofter (also woolly woof) n. a (passive) homosexual.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 232: willie-woofter Male homosexual, an extension of ‘woofter’ to include the point of his exercise.
2005		L. Redhead Rubdown [ebook] Why don’t ya try a real man, sweetheart, ’stead of hanging out with a couple of woolly wooftas.
2006		in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 272: You’d recognize him immediately as a West End woofter.
2011		ntnews.com.au 21 Mar. [Internet So a bloke walks into an outback pub, orders a c**k-sucking cowboy and then someone calls him a poof. Well it might have been a horse’s hoof or a wolly woofter.

In derivatives

woofterish (adj.) (also woolly-woofterish)

(Aus./N.Z.) of an argument, indecisive, unconvincing; thus woolly-woofterism n.

1988		Dominion (Wellington) 30 Dec. 8: [Heading] Woofterish on Aids. Of all your editorial comments [...] surely the effort on Aids and the Bishop of Christchurch takes the biscuit for wooly [sic] woofterism [DNZE].
1993		Eve. Post (Wellington) 22 May 5: By banning the woofterish gloves-on scrapping [...] the Minister may well inspire a resurgence of the bareknuckle classicism New Zealanders once held dear [DNZE].
2000		C. James in N.Z. Herald 11 Dec. 🌐 The Health Strategy [...] is a slender document, unburdened by hard-edged thinking but burdened with some politically soggy tendencies [...] heavily infused with woofterish thinking on the Treaty of Waitangi and Maori health.
2002		R. McClay at Parents Centres (NZ) 🌐 If all this means that I am a Left wing, Liberal, Interfering, Woolly Woofterish, Fascist Twit, as Mark Bennett of Radio Pacific thinks ... well so be it. The children of New Zealand, on whose behalf I speak, won’t mind. Nor do I.