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Meanings of poof in English
Synonyms
Examples for "queen"
Examples for "queen"
1
He was quite sure he knew what the young queen was thinking.
2
Obama met the queen three times, including a state visit in 2011.
3
The queen dropped in a fainting-fit; and the brute left the room.
4
Therefore, I plan to offer our resignation to the queen, he said.
5
For thousands of years he experimented, concealing his work from the queen.
1
I wrote this article about the word 'queer' in the paper today.
2
Artist and queer rights advocate Jamiee Stockman-Young said the issue was complex.
3
Does queer art, some ask, refer to a specific school of protest?
4
For queer and transgender Pakistanis, however, the risks are far more ubiquitous.
5
He spoke in a queer, hard voice; and instantly left the room.
1
The old Chinese fairy story hits upon a fundamental and vital truth.
2
The fairy bath was probably fed from the fountain in the court.
3
The grass in the churchyard sparkled with the fairy film of gossamers.
4
A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
5
In the wrong hands that information would be devastating to fairy security.
1
On Jan. 14 at Golden State, Nance recorded a career-high six steals.
2
Nance pondered the matter for a while silently; then she asked suddenly:
3
Another year and a half goes by and Nance is grabbed here.
4
Dan was not at all in favor of it, but Nance insisted.
5
Why would Anna expect anything to change at the Nee Nance Store?
1
Well, they're no pansy flowers, but... m'lord has the truth of it.
2
Already the kids think I'm some kind of pansy because of you.
3
You're not going to raise him to be a pansy, are you?
4
It is the pansy brooch that I gave to old Tom Darcy.
5
She has heard the word 'pansy', then, and now understands it.
1
You know, in case TMZ is having a fag break or something.
2
It is late September at the fag end of the tourism season.
3
They said that the whole world would know he was a fag.
4
Albert dropped his fag and stood on it on the way in.
5
They smoked fag after fag, lighting the new ones on the butts.
1
The Bishop, lifting the faggot-fork, carefully stirred and built up the logs.
2
The Catholic princes and bishops were at work with fire and faggot.
3
His hand shot into the fire and dragged out a burning faggot.
4
A faggot of these lopped branches can be bought for a penny.
5
You can't let fucking faggot whores take over what belongs to you.
1
The church appealed to the rack, and faith relied on the fagot.
2
It is the fagot-piles about the stake which flame so merrily yonder.
3
Thereupon she took in her hands the fagot John had been holding.
4
The axe and the fagot have disappeared; but, alas for human nature!
5
Madame de Sevigné minces on the subject of the fagot and the wheel.
1
Lak every pretty girl an' have good time, then 'pouf!-zatis all!
2
French Pete followed her admiringly, though he said ominously: Some day, pouf!
3
Teddy's a pouf, but he could talk the birds down from the trees.
4
They quarreled; the Spahi drew first; and then, pouf et passe!
5
If the mind doesn't make it into the host -pouf!
Usage of poof in English
1
In 24 hours, poof, the all the photos in that story disappear.
2
My fear seemed to last forever, and then poof, it was gone.
3
He went through the screen, hit the wall behind it, and poof.
4
There's a fuse marker, and in the third one, poof, it's gone.
5
She couldn't just wander in through the wall, or poof herself inside.
6
You won't say 'poof' to that, because I won't listen to it.
7
The little poof of white rode up and down, up and down.
8
This little poof of white rode up and down, up and down.
9
And to the injured Tommy Smith, he said: Take that poof bandage off.
10
But I was just looking at your hand and poof, there it is.
11
So this is just like poof that I'm fulfilling my purpose.
12
That's not about to go poof with the next thermometer reading.
13
It was as if the kid had gone poof and disappeared.
14
Folded up on himself, until he could be folded no more, and poof!
15
They can flatten out pretty bad once they poof back down.
16
The dogs have never barked or shown alarm, and then...poof...they're gone.
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