Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a general term of abuse, fool, idiot.

1978		S. Roberts in New Classics 5 23: So what’s left? Just all us other poephols [...] the man-in-the-street [DSAE].
1982		P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 29: Those poephols at the post office – they not so stupid as they look.
1984		P. Slabolepszy ‘Over the Hill’ in Mooi Street (1994) 55: I just don’t want you to look like a poephol.
1989		B. Simon ‘Score Me the Ages’ Born in the RSA (1997) 138: Jou poephol (laughs) Just don ’ moer. You moer, we all get moer’d. It’s just what the Boere are waiting for.
1995		I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 63: You should have seen the rows of poephols waiting to do the test.
1997		(con. late 1940s) J.M. Coetzee Boyhood (1998) 57: Then there are gat and poep-hol and words like them, hurled back and forth in bouts of abuse.
2000		L. Schwartz Wild Almond Line 167: The corporal was not amused. I was sent running. The staff sergeant had a marvellous array of invective. ‘Ek sal jou poephol.’.

2. the anus.

a.1969		A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: That tickey deposit heart of his is tight, like his poephol].
1982		P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 12: Sun shines out of his big yiddishe poephol! [Ibid.] 20: You can stick it up your poephols! [...] Up Carstens! Up the telephone department! Up the whole bladdy lot of you!