powder puffn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpaʊdə pʌf/, U.S.

/ˈpaʊdər ˌpəf/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: powder n.¹, puff n.

Etymology: < powder n.¹ + puff n.

A. n.

a. A soft pad or wad of material for applying powder to the skin, etc. Formerly also: an instrument like a small bellows, for blowing powder over the hair (now historical).Powder puffs were originally made from down or similar fluffy material, and used to sprinkle or dust powder over the face or hair. The term is now also used of disc-shaped pads used to apply powder directly to the skin.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply > instrument used to apply powder

puffc1651

powder puff1678

powdering puff1699

pluff1714

puff1732

puffball1821

powder rag1878

puffer1971

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > implement for powdering

puffc1651

powder puff1841

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. §iv. i. 333 The windpipe [of the Goosander] hath two swellings out one above another, each resembling a powder-puff.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 7 He's such a Dog, he wou'd not give his Powder Puff to redeem my Soul.

1702 T. Brown Select Epist. Cicero 282 The Skeleton of a Fan, with a Tooth-brush, a Powder-puff, and a box of Pomatum.

1732 C. Bodens Modish Couple v. iv. 73 Have you bubbl'd me at this rate, Madam? Shamm'd me off with your Abigail, your Comb-brush, your Powder-puff, hey?

1826 M. Kelly Reminisc. II. 168 He could not..have handled the comb, curling irons, and powder puff, more skilfully.

1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xix. 229 This..made him..pass the powder-puff..over his hair.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. x. 206 Topsy and Mopsy were improved by the powder puff.

1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding i. 48 She loved to..lightly meddle with their things—with Mrs Marlowe's atomizer which skeeted perfume, the grey-pink powder puff, [etc.].

1973 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 29 Jan. 6/8 I take a soft fluffy powder puff and just a dust of powder and gently rub his back.

2002 M. Kochan tr. D. Veillon Fashion under Occup. i. 15 Their companions were painted and made up and..they took out and plied their powder puffs and lipsticks.

b. In extended use: something resembling or reminiscent of a powder puff (of the older, fluffy variety) in form or appearance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > young

coddy-moddy gull1673

scauriea1795

Iceland gull1822

powder puff1850

1850 Fraser's Mag. July 29/1 Two black swans, which had brought over their two newly-hatched, grey, downy powder-puffs of nestlings.

1891 Daily News 14 Oct. 2/8 Myriads of gulls..sitting about, of all sizes, from tiny powder-puffs to the stately wide-winged, full grown birds.

1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel iii. 34 The artillery fire redoubled in intensity... The hot blue sky was dappled with fleecy white powder-puffs.

1988 Pigeon Racing Gaz. July 24/1 A pole trap..is a small version of the old fashioned gintrap, to which you tie a rabbit's tail ‘powderpuff’ by a piece of cotton.

1994 S. Murphey Bean Blossom Dreams vi. 96 As we gathered around to watch Charley hold each little powder puff in turn, I knew that these birds would probably die of nothing worse than old age.

2. colloquial (usually depreciative).

a. A man who pays excessive attention to his appearance, a fop; an effeminate man (frequently with suggestion of homosexuality).The word is not used in this sense in the newspaper article referred to in quot. 1940, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 18 July 1926 under the headline ‘Pink Powder Puffs’, although the controversy it generated (in which Valentino challenged the journalist to a boxing or wrestling match) may have contributed to the revival of the sense in the mid 20th cent. The event is said to be the motivation behind sense A. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy

popa1500

miniona1513

prick-me-daintya1529

puppy?1544

velvet-coat1549

skipjack1554

coxcomb1567

musk cat?1567

physbuttocke1570

Adonis?1571

Adon1590

foretop1597

musk-cod1600

pretty fellow1600

sparkc1600

spangle-baby1602

flash1605

barber-monger1608

cocoloch1610

dapperling1611

fantastica1613

feather-cock1612

trig1612

jack-a-dandy?1617

gimcrack1623

satinist1639

powder puffa1653

fop1676

prig1676

foplinga1681

cockcomb1684

beau garçona1687

shape1688

duke1699

nab1699

smirk1699

beau1700

petty master1706

moppet1707

Tom Astoner1707

dapper1709

petit maître1711

buck1725

toupee1727

toupet1728

toupet-man1748

jemmy1753

jessamy1753

macaroni1764

majoc1770

monkeyrony1773

dandyc1780

elegant1780

muscadin1794

incroyable1797

beauty man1800

bang-up1811

natty1818

ruffian1818

exquisite1819

heavy swell1819

marvellous1819

bit of stuff1828

merveilleux1830

fat1832

squirt1844

dandyling1846

ineffable1859

guinea pig1860

Dundreary swell1862

masher1872

dude1877

mash1879

dudette1883

dand1886

heavy gunner1890

posh1890

nut1904

smoothie1929

fancy-pants1930

saga boy1941

fancy Dan1943

a1653 Z. Boyd Sel. Serm. (1989) iv. 149 The Lord..made his glory to runne thorow sea and land by drowning the pride of that Spanish pharoah..that popish powder puffe.

1718 C. Molloy Coquet 28 Here Hussey, Patch-box; you, Powder-puff, come back here, I say, and answer me two or three Questions.

1732 H. Fielding Lottery ii. 18 Is this the Fellow for whom I am unknown? this Powder-Puff.

1786 H. Cowley School for Greybeards 26 Cunning gentlewoman! who was that spark, hey? Speak thou powder-puff—thou ship of gauze—thou black pin! Who was he?

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 143 What reason has an old battered powder-puff like you [i.e. an ex-friseur] to be easy in your mind?

1940 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 6 June 29/2 [In 1926] Rudolph Valentino challenged a Chicago reporter to a duel because of an article referring to him as a ‘pink powder puff’.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §405/2 Effeminate man,..powder puff.

1987 I. Whitcomb Irving Berlin & Ragtime Amer. (1988) iii. 51 He it was who'd been barnstorming in blackface around America.., while this Philadelphia powder puff had stayed safe at home, fearful of the rough touring life and the tough business ways of New York.

2001 Rocky Mountain News (Nexis) 30 Nov. 61 a Tom learned he could bond with the ‘powder puff’ (his words) over a shared passion for cornbread dipped in buttermilk.

b. North American. A feeble or ineffectual boxer; (more generally) a weak or feeble sportsman. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of

bruiser1744

ruffian1791

in-fighter1812

punisher1812

nobber1821

receiver general1821

slogger1829

slogster1881

ham1888

slaughterer1896

pushover1908

bum1917

mauler1920

palooka1920

round heel1926

set-up1926

powder puff1931

spoiler1948

kick-boxer1978

stiff1989

1927 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 25 Jan. 5/2 It is hoped that his favorable showing will earn him a chance against the powder-puff boys now drawing down the big money in the flyweight class.]

1931 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 8/1 Running Roosevelt against Hoover would simply be running one pussy footer against another... One powder puff cannot harm another.

1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. g1 Then there was the string of overmatched powderpuffs he [sc. the boxer Willie de Wit] dominated as his handlers orchestrated a 12-0-1 record.

1994 H. C. Sisson in H. C. Sisson & D. W. Rowe Coots, Codgers & Curmudgeons 46 Pitching..often depends on whether you are facing a murderer's row of pellet pounders, a bunch of powder puffs who swing like your little sister, or [etc.].

B. adj.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Characteristic of a powder puff (sense A. 2); weak, ineffectual; effeminate; ‘soft’. Sometimes spec.: that has a light hit or punch. depreciative.Chiefly in sporting contexts; cf. sense A. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective

deadc1380

virtuelessa1393

uneffectuous1549

inefficace1570

limping1577

unprevailing1604

inficient1609

weak1609

unofficious1611

penny farthing1615

invalidable1634

invalid1635

unprevalent1640

ineffectible1650

ineffective1651

inefficacious1658

insignificant1661

uneffective1670

popgun1690

foible1715

unefficacious1744

inefficient1750

ineffectual1785

effete1790

foisonlessc1817

puttering1857

non-effective1862

non-efficient1863

shaftless1881

powder puff1911

fouled-up1942

1911 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 12 Jan. 6/4 Nelson calls Wolgast a ‘dainty, powder puff champion’.

1937 C. Odets Golden Boy iii. i. 185 That's no powderpuff hitter!

1963 E. M. Miller Exile to Stars 184 This isn't powder-puff stuff. Someone can get skinned-up something fierce in this business.

1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 9 Jan. 20 Washington insiders are saying that the presidential election was a powder puff affair compared with what the Senate race would be.

1999 Another Vintage Liverpool Performance Sept. 16/2 At last Evans had listened to our pleas and bought someone to stiffen up the midfield after the powderpuff Barnes-Redknapp combo cost us the 96 cup final.

2003 Sun (Nexis) 22 Feb. A fighter who was floored seven times by powder puff puncher Fres Oquendo.

Compounds

C1. Objective.

powder puff maker n. now rare

ΚΠ

1854 Census Great Brit. 1851: Population Tables Pt. II I. Table 53 p. cxxv/2 in Parl. Papers 1952–3 LXXXVIII. i. 1 Powder-puff maker.

1891 Post Office London Directory 534/2 Clark Mrs. Martha, powder puff maker.

1995 Billboard 23 Sept. 34/3 D'Andrea was living in New York's Little Italy when he stumbled across a sidewalk distress sale by a powder-puff maker.

C2.

powder puff feather n. †(a) = marabou n.² 1 (Obsolete); (b) any soft feather reminiscent of a powder puff.

ΚΠ

1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 3 May in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 113 Toques with profusion of ostrich feathers or still better because more expensive marabous viz powder puff feathers.

1947 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Madison, Wisconsin) 23 Jan. /6 (advt.) Shining straw braid..finished off with little powder puff feathers and a come-hither veil.

1982 P. Steyn Birds of Prey Southern Afr. 21/2 By the end of the fourth year the long ruff feathers [sc. of the Cape Vulture] have been replaced by the downy ‘powder-puff’ feathers of the adult.

C3. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating a sporting contest, team, etc., intended for girls or women, or open only to girls or women.

ΚΠ

1929 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. 18 The ‘ladybirds’ now competing in the ‘powder puff’ derby flight from Santa Monica to Cleveland, are engaged in the first women's contest in America since their right to a world record was established.

1962 Washington Daily News 26 July 53/4 A recent high school graduate, she..quarterbacked its powderpuff football team.

1985 Central Pennsylvania Business Digest (Nexis) June 1 There are service diagnostic checkups and powderpuff clinics, instruction on changing oil, [etc.].

2005 Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) 23 Jan. 3 b The tournament includes a powder puff division for women.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	powder puff
释义	powder puffn.adj. Brit. /ˈpaʊdə pʌf/, U.S. /ˈpaʊdər ˌpəf/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: powder n.¹, puff n. Etymology: < powder n.¹ + puff n. A. n. 1. a. A soft pad or wad of material for applying powder to the skin, etc. Formerly also: an instrument like a small bellows, for blowing powder over the hair (now historical).Powder puffs were originally made from down or similar fluffy material, and used to sprinkle or dust powder over the face or hair. The term is now also used of disc-shaped pads used to apply powder directly to the skin. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply > instrument used to apply powder puffc1651 powder puff1678 powdering puff1699 pluff1714 puff1732 puffball1821 powder rag1878 puffer1971 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > implement for powdering puffc1651 powder puff1841 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. §iv. i. 333 The windpipe [of the Goosander] hath two swellings out one above another, each resembling a powder-puff. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 7 He's such a Dog, he wou'd not give his Powder Puff to redeem my Soul. 1702 T. Brown Select Epist. Cicero 282 The Skeleton of a Fan, with a Tooth-brush, a Powder-puff, and a box of Pomatum. 1732 C. Bodens Modish Couple v. iv. 73 Have you bubbl'd me at this rate, Madam? Shamm'd me off with your Abigail, your Comb-brush, your Powder-puff, hey? 1826 M. Kelly Reminisc. II. 168 He could not..have handled the comb, curling irons, and powder puff, more skilfully. 1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xix. 229 This..made him..pass the powder-puff..over his hair. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. x. 206 Topsy and Mopsy were improved by the powder puff. 1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding i. 48 She loved to..lightly meddle with their things—with Mrs Marlowe's atomizer which skeeted perfume, the grey-pink powder puff, [etc.]. 1973 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 29 Jan. 6/8 I take a soft fluffy powder puff and just a dust of powder and gently rub his back. 2002 M. Kochan tr. D. Veillon Fashion under Occup. i. 15 Their companions were painted and made up and..they took out and plied their powder puffs and lipsticks. b. In extended use: something resembling or reminiscent of a powder puff (of the older, fluffy variety) in form or appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > young coddy-moddy gull1673 scauriea1795 Iceland gull1822 powder puff1850 1850 Fraser's Mag. July 29/1 Two black swans, which had brought over their two newly-hatched, grey, downy powder-puffs of nestlings. 1891 Daily News 14 Oct. 2/8 Myriads of gulls..sitting about, of all sizes, from tiny powder-puffs to the stately wide-winged, full grown birds. 1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel iii. 34 The artillery fire redoubled in intensity... The hot blue sky was dappled with fleecy white powder-puffs. 1988 Pigeon Racing Gaz. July 24/1 A pole trap..is a small version of the old fashioned gintrap, to which you tie a rabbit's tail ‘powderpuff’ by a piece of cotton. 1994 S. Murphey Bean Blossom Dreams vi. 96 As we gathered around to watch Charley hold each little powder puff in turn, I knew that these birds would probably die of nothing worse than old age. 2. colloquial (usually depreciative). a. A man who pays excessive attention to his appearance, a fop; an effeminate man (frequently with suggestion of homosexuality).The word is not used in this sense in the newspaper article referred to in quot. 1940, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 18 July 1926 under the headline ‘Pink Powder Puffs’, although the controversy it generated (in which Valentino challenged the journalist to a boxing or wrestling match) may have contributed to the revival of the sense in the mid 20th cent. The event is said to be the motivation behind sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 a1653 Z. Boyd Sel. Serm. (1989) iv. 149 The Lord..made his glory to runne thorow sea and land by drowning the pride of that Spanish pharoah..that popish powder puffe. 1718 C. Molloy Coquet 28 Here Hussey, Patch-box; you, Powder-puff, come back here, I say, and answer me two or three Questions. 1732 H. Fielding Lottery ii. 18 Is this the Fellow for whom I am unknown? this Powder-Puff. 1786 H. Cowley School for Greybeards 26 Cunning gentlewoman! who was that spark, hey? Speak thou powder-puff—thou ship of gauze—thou black pin! Who was he? 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 143 What reason has an old battered powder-puff like you [i.e. an ex-friseur] to be easy in your mind? 1940 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 6 June 29/2 [In 1926] Rudolph Valentino challenged a Chicago reporter to a duel because of an article referring to him as a ‘pink powder puff’. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §405/2 Effeminate man,..powder puff. 1987 I. Whitcomb Irving Berlin & Ragtime Amer. (1988) iii. 51 He it was who'd been barnstorming in blackface around America.., while this Philadelphia powder puff had stayed safe at home, fearful of the rough touring life and the tough business ways of New York. 2001 Rocky Mountain News (Nexis) 30 Nov. 61 a Tom learned he could bond with the ‘powder puff’ (his words) over a shared passion for cornbread dipped in buttermilk. b. North American. A feeble or ineffectual boxer; (more generally) a weak or feeble sportsman. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of bruiser1744 ruffian1791 in-fighter1812 punisher1812 nobber1821 receiver general1821 slogger1829 slogster1881 ham1888 slaughterer1896 pushover1908 bum1917 mauler1920 palooka1920 round heel1926 set-up1926 powder puff1931 spoiler1948 kick-boxer1978 stiff1989 1927 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 25 Jan. 5/2 It is hoped that his favorable showing will earn him a chance against the powder-puff boys now drawing down the big money in the flyweight class.] 1931 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 8/1 Running Roosevelt against Hoover would simply be running one pussy footer against another... One powder puff cannot harm another. 1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. g1 Then there was the string of overmatched powderpuffs he [sc. the boxer Willie de Wit] dominated as his handlers orchestrated a 12-0-1 record. 1994 H. C. Sisson in H. C. Sisson & D. W. Rowe Coots, Codgers & Curmudgeons 46 Pitching..often depends on whether you are facing a murderer's row of pellet pounders, a bunch of powder puffs who swing like your little sister, or [etc.]. B. adj. colloquial (originally U.S.). Characteristic of a powder puff (sense A. 2); weak, ineffectual; effeminate; ‘soft’. Sometimes spec.: that has a light hit or punch. depreciative.Chiefly in sporting contexts; cf. sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective deadc1380 virtuelessa1393 uneffectuous1549 inefficace1570 limping1577 unprevailing1604 inficient1609 weak1609 unofficious1611 penny farthing1615 invalidable1634 invalid1635 unprevalent1640 ineffectible1650 ineffective1651 inefficacious1658 insignificant1661 uneffective1670 popgun1690 foible1715 unefficacious1744 inefficient1750 ineffectual1785 effete1790 foisonlessc1817 puttering1857 non-effective1862 non-efficient1863 shaftless1881 powder puff1911 fouled-up1942 1911 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 12 Jan. 6/4 Nelson calls Wolgast a ‘dainty, powder puff champion’. 1937 C. Odets Golden Boy iii. i. 185 That's no powderpuff hitter! 1963 E. M. Miller Exile to Stars 184 This isn't powder-puff stuff. Someone can get skinned-up something fierce in this business. 1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 9 Jan. 20 Washington insiders are saying that the presidential election was a powder puff affair compared with what the Senate race would be. 1999 Another Vintage Liverpool Performance Sept. 16/2 At last Evans had listened to our pleas and bought someone to stiffen up the midfield after the powderpuff Barnes-Redknapp combo cost us the 96 cup final. 2003 Sun (Nexis) 22 Feb. A fighter who was floored seven times by powder puff puncher Fres Oquendo. Compounds C1. Objective. powder puff maker n. now rare ΚΠ 1854 Census Great Brit. 1851: Population Tables Pt. II I. Table 53 p. cxxv/2 in Parl. Papers 1952–3 LXXXVIII. i. 1 Powder-puff maker. 1891 Post Office London Directory 534/2 Clark Mrs. Martha, powder puff maker. 1995 Billboard 23 Sept. 34/3 D'Andrea was living in New York's Little Italy when he stumbled across a sidewalk distress sale by a powder-puff maker. C2. powder puff feather n. †(a) = marabou n.² 1 (Obsolete); (b) any soft feather reminiscent of a powder puff. ΚΠ 1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 3 May in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 113 Toques with profusion of ostrich feathers or still better because more expensive marabous viz powder puff feathers. 1947 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Madison, Wisconsin) 23 Jan. /6 (advt.) Shining straw braid..finished off with little powder puff feathers and a come-hither veil. 1982 P. Steyn Birds of Prey Southern Afr. 21/2 By the end of the fourth year the long ruff feathers [sc. of the Cape Vulture] have been replaced by the downy ‘powder-puff’ feathers of the adult. C3. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating a sporting contest, team, etc., intended for girls or women, or open only to girls or women. ΚΠ 1929 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. 18 The ‘ladybirds’ now competing in the ‘powder puff’ derby flight from Santa Monica to Cleveland, are engaged in the first women's contest in America since their right to a world record was established. 1962 Washington Daily News 26 July 53/4 A recent high school graduate, she..quarterbacked its powderpuff football team. 1985 Central Pennsylvania Business Digest (Nexis) June 1 There are service diagnostic checkups and powderpuff clinics, instruction on changing oil, [etc.]. 2005 Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) 23 Jan. 3 b The tournament includes a powder puff division for women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1653
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