Slang

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script:
MIDDLE-AGED MAN

Well, I think it’s a disgrace, parading around all ponced-up like a pack of bleeding woofters. Bloody hell, what’ll they think up next?

Slang:
ponced up = Dressed up; or overdressed
woofters = male homosexual

Comments

Mind yer P's and W's

[q-spade.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I take it "woofter" is a variant of "poofter", which is a term I've definitely heard used as a reference to gay males.

That being said, "poofter/poof" is more of a British slang term, and not as often used here in the States. I've only heard "woofter" used in VG.

Re: Mind yer P's and W's

[velvetspur.livejournal.com]

And context is everything of course. I had to look up "shirt lifter" as I'd never heard that one before. Such an evocative term!

Re: Mind yer P's and W's

[rougevelvet.livejournal.com]

Tis taken from rhyming slang

I've heard woolly woofter used instead of poofter

Re: Mind yer P's and W's

[vardathemessage.livejournal.com]

I've heard woolly woofter used instead of poofter

I was just looking that up! Poofter is from poof, which is possibly from powder puff, or from puff, which is tramp's cant for a sodomist since 1870(!)