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pom

noun
/pɒm/UK/pɑm/US/pɔm/

Etymology

A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912 as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.

Definitions

  1. An Englishman

    An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.

    • I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.
    • The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook.
    • At one stage a group called British People Against Racial Discrimination complained to the Advertising Standards Board in Australia about an advert for Tooheys beer that claimed it was ‘cold enough to scare a Pom’.

  2. A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.

  3. Initialism of polyoxometalate.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Initialism of Program Operation Mode.

    2. Initialism of Project Object Model.

    3. Initialism of Prescription-Only Medication.

    4. Initialism of polyoxymethylene.

    5. Initialism of pivaloyloxymethyl.

    6. Abbreviation of Port Moresby.

    7. Synonym of Pomeranian, a dog breed or a dog of this breed.

    8. Alternative letter-case form of pom, an Englishman or Briton.

    9. An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia.

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Derived

Pomland, pommie, pommy, ten pound pom

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA