- (Briton or Englishman):Pom
Aclipping ofpomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912[1][2] asrhyming slang forimmigrant with additional reference to the likelihood ofsunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.
pom (pluralpoms)
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) AnEnglishman; aBriton; aperson ofBritishdescent.
1987, Linda Christmas,The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey,page27:I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant aPom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot aPom’.
1989, Tony Wheeler,Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet,page10:The prize for being Australia′s originalpom 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?,page214: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 aPom’.
- (cocktail) Acocktailcontainingpomegranatejuice andvodka.
The termpom,pommy, etc. is sometimes considered an ethnic or racial slur within theCommonwealth, largely by British expatriates; however the advertising boards of both Australia and New Zealand reject this.
pom
- copal
FromLatinpōmus. Compare Daco-Romanianpom.
pom m (pluralponj)
- fruit tree
- fruit
Inherited fromLatinpōmum.
pom m (pluralpoms)
- bunch,bouquet
- Synonym:ramell
- pommel,knob,doorknob
- ascent-bottle with a rounded shape
- (botany)pome
- (historical)orb(golden ball symbolising royal power)
- Synonyms:globus,món
pom
- copal
pom
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofpôr:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
pom
- apple
- Synonym:mansana
FromFrenchpomme, fromMiddle Frenchpomme, fromOld Frenchpome,pume, fromLatinpōma, plural ofpōmum, fromProto-Italic*poomos, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂po-h₁ém-os(“taken off”).
pom
- apple
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987.Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
FromLatinpōmus. CompareAromanian,Romanianpom.
pom m
- fruit tree
Borrowed fromFrenchpompe.
pom
- topump
Inherited fromLatinpōmus, fromProto-Italic*poomos, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂po-h₁ém-os(“taken off”), from*h₂epo(“off”) +*h₁em-(“take”). Seepōmum.
pom m (pluralpomi)
- fruit tree
pom
- copal
FromProto-Hmong-Mien*bu̯ət(“to see”). Cognate withIu Mienbuatc.
pom
- tosee
- totattle
- Sue Murphy Mote,Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land→ISBN, 2004)
pom
- copal
