noun a male homosexual. In origin probably connected with French slang poufiasser, which Barrère (Argot and Slang ,1889) defines as a person 'of either sex whose fondness for the opposite sex leads them into a life of questionable description', that is, presumably, a life of prostitution including homosexual prostitution, and pouffiace or pouffiasse 'a low prostitute' AUSTRALIA, 1833