pom
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Briton or Englishman): Pom
Etymology edit
A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912[1][2] as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɒm/
- (US) IPA(key): /pɑm/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /pɔm/
Audio (AU) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒm
Noun edit
pom (plural poms)
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
- 1987, Linda Christmas, The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey, page 27:
- 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’.
- 1989, Tony Wheeler, Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 10:
- 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.
- 2008, Lawrence Booth, Cricket, Lovely Cricket?, page 214:
- 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’.
- (cocktail) A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.
Usage notes edit
Whether pom, pommy, etc. is sometimes considered an ethnic or racial slur within the Commonwealth, largely by British expatriates; however the advertising boards of both Australia and New Zealand reject this.
Synonyms edit
- (An Englishman or Briton): See Briton and Englishman
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References edit
- ^ 1998, Roger Robinson, Nelson Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, page 445.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22378819
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Akatek edit
Noun edit
pom
Aromanian edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin pōmus. Compare Daco-Romanian pom.
Noun edit
pom m (plural ponj)
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pom m (plural poms)
- bunch, bouquet
- Synonym: ramell
- pommel, knob, doorknob
- a scent-bottle with a rounded shape
- (botany) pome
- (historical) orb (golden ball symbolising royal power)
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Further reading edit
- “pom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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pom
Galician edit
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pom
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of pôr:
Ladino edit
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Noun edit
pom (Latin spelling)
Mauritian Creole edit
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pom
References edit
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Megleno-Romanian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pōmus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian pom.
Noun edit
pom m
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Rade edit
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pom
- to pump
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin pōmus, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”), from *h₂epo (“off”) + *h₁em- (“take”). See pōmum.
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Audio (file)
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pom m (plural pomi)
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pom
White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *bu̯ət (“to see”). Cognate with Iu Mien buatc.
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pom
References edit
- Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land →ISBN, 2004)
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pom