powder-puff

powder-puff
/pow"deuhr puf'/, adj. Informal.
1. limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
2. inconsequential; trifling; lightweight: a powder-puff company with little financing and a weak sales effort.
[1935-40]

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