plural Pommies. Australia and New Zealand, slang, usually disparaging. : briton. especially : an English immigrant.
or pommie (ˈpɒmɪ ) nounWord forms: plural -mies. (sometimes capital) slang, mainly derogatory. a mildly offensive word used by Australians and New Zealanders for an English person. Sometimes shortened to: pom.
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.
pommy (plural pommies) (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, often derogatory) A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman.
pom (plural poms) (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
The most common explanation is that it's a reference to Australia's past as a convict colony. “Pom” is supposedly a bastardised acronym, meaning “prisoner of Mother England” or “prisoner of Her Majesty”.
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A British person, especially one from England. (Originally applied to an immigrant from the British Isles.) The word pom has its origin in wordplay. An early, derisory term for an immigrant in Australia was the rhyming slang jimmygrant (sometimes written as Jimmy Grant), recorded in 1844.
The best-documented of these is that "Pommy" originated as a contraction of "pomegranate". According to this explanation, "pomegranate" was Australian rhyming slang for "immigrant" ("Jimmy Grant").
As someone living among them I call mostly call them Aussies, but also occasionally 'you bloody colonials' or 'shackle draggers'.
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