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語源 1

Onomatopoeic. See also puff.

発音

• enPR: po͝of, IPA: /pʊf/
• (米国発音)
  • IPA: /puːf/, [puːɸ]
• 韻: -ʊf, -uːf
• 異形同音異義語: pouf, pouffe (with certain dialects and/or accents)

間投詞

poof

1. Onomatopoeia indicating a small explosion with a cloud of smoke; as caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.

   Poof, he was gone.

   • 1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 87:

     Even now, in the spring, the river softly cries, 'Menthol, Menthol, you are one wazoo. One day I'm the elf next door and the poof I'm a river.'

   • 1995, Christopher McQuarrie, The Usual Suspects (motion picture), spoken by Verbal (Kevin Spacey):

     The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.

   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 36:

     What makes Atlantis so interesting is that its people built a utopian society and then mysteriously disappeared. One day it was there, then poof! Gone without a trace.

派生語

動詞

poof (third-person singular simple present poofs, present participle poofing, simple past and past participle poofed)

1. To vanish or disappear.

   He poofed into thin air.

   • 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 22:

     He's a figment of your subconscious Eric, not mine, so I tapped into Ultimate Reality and poofed him out.

2. (intransitive) To break wind; to fart.

派生語

名詞

poof (plural poofs)

1. The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.

語源 2

Origin unknown.

名詞

poof (plural poofs or (less common) pooves)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, colloquial) A gay man; especially one who is irritating or contemptible.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:male homosexual

   • 2015, Irvine Welsh, A Decent Ride‎, Random House, →ISBN, page 21:

     He recalls how everybody got called a ‘poof’ at Forrester High School in the seventies. Back then, only ‘wanker’ possibly rivalled it as the most common term of abuse. But The Poof was the Poof.

派生語