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pommie

English

Alternative forms

  • pommy

Etymology

From pom +? -ie (diminutive suffix). Australian from 1912.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p?mi/

Noun

pommie (plural pommies)

  1. (colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom.
    • 1953, Nevil Shute, In the Wet, 2010, unnumbered page,
      “It?ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She?s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I?m not a bloody Pommie.” [] “Too right, it?s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren?t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.”
    • 2005, Craig Zerf, Plob, page 234,
      A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.
    • 2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, unnumbered page,
      There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts. [] If Sissy couldn?t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn?t have to hire a Pommie house girl.

Adjective

pommie (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes derogatory) English; British.
    • See citations at pommy.

Related terms

  • pom

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pomme

English

Alternative forms

  • pomey

Etymology

Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.

Noun

pomme (plural pomeis)

  1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple.

References

  • Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

Estonian

Noun

pomme

  1. partitive plural of pomm

French

Etymology

From Old French pomme, pome, pume, from Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p?m/

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. apple (fruit)
  2. Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size.
  3. The fruit part of several vegetables.
  4. (colloquial) The head.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • “pomme” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

  • paomme (Guernsey)
  • poume (continental Norman)
  • poumme (Jersey)
  • pum (Sark)

Etymology

From Latin pomme, from Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum (fruit).

Pronunciation

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. (Jersey) apple

Derived terms


Old French

Noun

pomme f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

  1. Alternative form of pome

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