Green’s Dictionary of Slang

effeminate, pertaining to homosexuality.

1955		K. Williams Diaries 17 Aug. 116: Rehearsed from 10am to 9pm. Fed up with the entire poofy set-up.
1967		Oz 7 24/2: American men are invariably puffy.
1968		Punch 21 Feb. 282: Volume one ended with Lytton severed from his protracted idyll of intellectual and poovey bliss at Cambridge.
1970		Times 4 July 21: You could not possibly prefer the poovy drips on the moon.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 166: homosexual [...] poufy (Brit sl).
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 106: A poofy tonsorial establishment [...] where he had what was left of his locks snipped.
1985		S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 102: He’s really handsome like a movie star / but rugged like not poofy.
1992		R.G. Barrett White Shoes 145: Dunno about that poofy lookin’ red T-shirt.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 71: You can stop talking in that poofy English accent for a start.
2006		P. Shannon Davey Darling 102: I was lucky to get away from those old beaky fruits. Poofy cunts.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Coorparoo Blues [ebook] The shower was as hot as hell [...] and he lathered up with all the poofy unguents lying about.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers [28]: Frank Begbie, the real fucking deal, no like the poofy ‘bad boy’ of Scottish art, the title they gied tae that poseur.