The term poof can be used in several ways: Pouffe, a British English term for a large footstool or ottoman as a pejorative English term for a gay man, shortened form of poofter as in Pursuing Opportunities Outside the Firm In Arrested Development (TV series), the name of a magazine for magicians to which Gob subscribes as a slang term for flatulence the child of Cosmo and Wanda, on the Nickelodeon show The Fairly OddParents in classical music, POOF as an acronym for the now defunct Philha… (More on Poof)