pommie

noun
/pɒmi/

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. An English immigrant

    An English immigrant; a pom.

    • 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.
  2. English

    English; British.

    • See citations at pommy.

The neighborhood

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