poof
exclamation
[ pʊf ]
• used to describe a sudden disappearance.
• "once you've used it, poof—it's gone"
• used to express contemptuous dismissal.
• "‘Oh, poof!’ said Will. ‘You say that every year.’"
Origin:
early 19th century: symbolic.
poof
noun
• an effeminate or gay man.
Origin:
mid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of the archaic noun puff in the sense ‘braggart’.
