Pommie
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɒmi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pommie is a noun meaning (colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom.
Meaning
(colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom.
More Meanings
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes derogatory) English; British.
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
“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.”
Word Forms
- pommies
- pommy
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pomegranate, poofter, pally, poufter, pollywog, poofterism.
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