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Pom; pom
noun
an English person, or more loosely, a person from Britain AUSTRALIA, 1912
Shortening of POMMY- — Michael Peters, Pommie Bastard, p. 87, 1969
- Can’t put one over on the Poms. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 79, 1972
- Notice at Bacchus Marsh Lion Park: Do not open the windows of your car. Do not alight from you car. Poms welcome on bicycles. — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 96, 1975
- There’s nothing Australians like so much as a really stupid Pom. — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 94, 1975
- — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 75, 1985
- Where do Poms hide their money? Under the soap. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 205, 1987
- It was the first punk rock single ever, and every Pom from Tony Blackburn to Billy Connolly swears blind it was the beginning of the whole movement. — Suroosh Alvi et al., The Vice Guide, p. 130, 2002
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