Definitions
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- adjective Being or relating to a
division of atraditionally male sport that is reserved forfemales .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The powderpuff was pink and intact, there was still some powder left under it.
Belle's story part 3 nathreee 2010
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I heard George didn't really ask him any questions, just tapped him with a powderpuff.
McCain: "Probably" A Mistake To Seek Hagee's Support -- But I'm Glad To Have It 2009
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She is not tough, she is a powderpuff. to put it nicely
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It's happening again, with powderpuff stories like this.
Sound Politics: "Maria Cantwell And Ron Dotzauer: Making Music Since 1983" 2006
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Proof of the true season, the Autumn Joy sedum is going from broccoli to pink powderpuff stage.
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Also: “herblz” is teh awsums, but at my house we call the girl parts “the powderpuff.”
IM AT UR OFFICE PARTEE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If Chris had any (INAUDIBLE) he should have said just keep your hands to yourself there, powderpuff.
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As if dissatisfied, she held a velvet bow to the side of her hair, and considered the effect; she took a powderpuff, and patted cheeks and neck with powder.
Maurice Guest 2003
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This in the wake of that incident on Sunday, caught on videotape, supposedly began as a powderpuff football game with some harmless hazing type of activities, which clearly, as you can see from this tape, escalated.
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It started out as a traditional powderpuff touch football game earlier this month for girls from Glen Brooke North high school, but it ended up with five kids in the hospital and it turned into a very ugly situation, as you can see in this tape.
uselessness commented on the word powderpuff
The only thing more frightening than little girls in football gear wailing on each other, is little boys in drag waving pompoms.
March 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word powderpuff
Um...I just like this word 'cause it's fluffy-sounding.
March 5, 2007
uselessness commented on the word powderpuff
Yes. Once upon a time, it referred to a makeup applicator that was nice and fluffy. But some people (I don't know who, exactly, but I still question their sanity) decided to preempt the word and apply it to one of the most brutal sports around, only with traditional gender roles reversed.
Not that I have a problem with female athletes (or male cheerleaders). It just seems these events are always hyped up and turned into a spectacle of the bizarre, rather than a legitimate sport. Which generally means the participants go to great lengths to make themselves as freaky as possible. I can only ask why. Maybe it's fun. I don't know, I haven't tried it. And I don't plan to. ;-)
I suppose if I want to be intellectual, I could choose to appreciate the irony. Where else but in a normal football game do you see such exaggerated masculinity and femininity in the same place? Powderpuff does turn that scene upside-down. But it still feels too contrived and sensationalist for my liking.
March 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word powderpuff
I know what you mean. I generally don't think of this word in that context (hence my earlier comment). Although I'm not sure that what goes on is a *complete* role reversal. I've seen girls in football gear, but never boys in drag--at least not in the sense that I know it. That is, they're always wearing rather boyish-looking (or manly looking?) outfits. Now the pompoms...well, that's another thing. ;-)
March 6, 2007
uselessness commented on the word powderpuff
Maybe I just went to a weird school. The guys go all out. Skirts, midriff, ribbons in the hair, makeup, you name it.
March 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word powderpuff
Zoiks! Yep, you went to a weird school, all right. ;-) Then again, I'm a product of parochial schools, so I never saw a "boy cheerleader" 'til years after I graduated.
March 6, 2007
uselessness commented on the word powderpuff
Actually, this was college. Never saw anything like it prior to that. Powderpuff is heavily promoted there as though it were one of the other innumerable frat parties or such, only it's school-sanctioned. It is strange.
March 6, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word powderpuff
All I know is, I went to school where Trent Lott was a cheerleader. I cannot describe to you the effect that knowledge has had on me.
March 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word powderpuff
Wow, c_b. Have you gotten some help?
March 6, 2007