An injurious and obsolete term for homosexual, gay person, mainly the passive one that should lift the shirt lap by the sexual act. There is also 'shirtlifter'.
In British film 'Beautiful Thing', the lad explains why his mother is angry: 'because I'm a queer, a bender, a poufter, a knobshiner, a brown hatter, a shirtflaplifter!'
by arpoador November 7, 2010