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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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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