Two-word spellings such as pom pom and pom pon have never been standard, though they appear in informal contexts, and hyphenated forms such as pom-pom are likewise nonstandard. There's no reason for the word to have a hyphen.
Spelling and etymology
The New Oxford American Dictionary (third edition, 2010) gives the spelling as "pom-pom." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th edition, 2011) gives the spelling as "pompom" or "pompon."
To most people that fuzzy ball on the top of a knit hat and the implement wielded by a cheerleader are both “pompoms,” but to traditionalists they are “pompons,” spelled the way the French—who gave us the word—spell it.
/ˈpɒm.pɒm/ us. /ˈpɑːm.pɑːm/ a small ball of wool or other material used as a decoration, especially on the top of a hat: I had a white sweater and a maroon hat with a white pompom.
Two-word spellings such as pom pom and pom pon have never been standard, though they appear in informal contexts, and hyphenated forms such as pom-pom are likewise nonstandard. There's no reason for the word to have a hyphen.
Noun. pom-pom (plural pom-poms)
So where does it come from? The English word pom-pom came about in the 18th century from the French word pompon, which referred to a small decorative ball made of fur, feathers, ribbon, wool or string.
Yes, pom is a valid Scrabble word.
The pompom on your winter hat may be just for decoration, but in the past there were more practical reasons for the embellishment. The pompom hat's origins can be traced back to Scandinavia from the age of the Vikings (800 – 1066).
This signal is only to be used when a person, or boat is threatened by grave or imminent danger, and requires assistance. PAN-PAN - (pronounced pahn-pahn) used to signal urgent information, like when someone has fallen overboard, or a boat is drifting into shore or a busy shipping channel.
The Baltimore Colts cheerleading group, formed in 1960, was the first professional team. Five years later, Fred Gasoff invented the modern pom-poms, which remain an attribute of cheerleaders to this day.
The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself.
Noun. pom (plural poms) (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
Australians have been using the word freely since its probable emergence in the late 19th century as a nickname for English immigrants, a short form of pomegranate, referring to their ruddy complexions.
A Project Object Model or POM is the fundamental unit of work in Maven. It is an XML file that contains information about the project and configuration details used by Maven to build the project. It contains default values for most projects.
Ew joins another 106 two-letter words, which are aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax, ay, ba, be, bi, bo, by, da, de, do, ed, ef, eh, el, em, en, er, es, et, ex, fa, fe, gi, go, ha, he, hi, hm, ho, id, if, in, is, it, jo, ka, ki, la, li, lo, ma, me, mi, mm, mo, mu, my, na, ne, no, nu, od, oe, of, ...
poma is a valid English word.
POMI is not a valid scrabble word.
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person.
POMS is an acronym standing for prisoners of mother England … it's what Australians sometimes call the British. It is also a sports team dance squad that carry pom-poms.
Trivia. Pom Pom is sometimes seen to have a dog-like posture like Socks. She is 5 and her birthday is the 16th of an unknown month. Although she is the same age as Bingo, she was never seen in Kindy.
Pomeranians Facts
The name of the breed comes from Pomerania, which is the region of Northern Europe where they originated. They are also known affectionately as Poms or Pom Poms.
While it has the same meaning as S.O.S. – "Save our Souls" – "Mayday" is more commonly used to convey an emergency verbally. S.O.S. is used less often these days since it was used mostly to indicate an emergency situation when transmitted by Morse code – three dots followed by three dashes and three more dots.