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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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sommie

English

Noun

sommie (plural sommies)

  1. Alternative form of summy

Anagrams

  • mimeos

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