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Pom   /pɔm/   Listen
Pom

noun
1.
A disparaging term for a British person.  Synonym: pommy.



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"Pom" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peasants, Pediment, Persia, Peru, conquest of, Petrarch (pe'trark), Pheidippides (fi-dip'e-dez), Philip II, Philippines, Phoenicia, Pizarro, Francisco (pi-zar'ro), conquest of Peru, Plataeans, Plato, Plebeians, Pompeii (pom-pa'ye), Pompey, Ponce de Leon (pon'tha da la-on), Pope, the Bishop of Rome, Porticoes, Portugal, sailors of, and the New World, Potato, found by Magellan, Pottery, Greek, Aztec, Zuni, Printing, invented, Ptolemy (tol'e-mi), ...
— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

... of the old bulldog breed; that is to say, he is not precisely a bulldog, but inherits the breed from one of his grandfathers. Superficially he presents more the appearance of a wire-haired retriever pom, and it has been difficult to classify him at Dog Shows. Indeed, I have claimed for him (though unsuccessfully up to the present) a new class, viz., Pom-Poms. The Canine Chronicle lent me the weight of its editorial support, suggesting as an alternative ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 • Various

... Druri, Drom, Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom, Drumming and fifing good Make hero-mood; Prophets upspring, Poets, too, sing; Music is life To peace and strife,— And men have ever heeded What chief by them ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... "The little village of Pom lies just beyond our farthest outpost," said General Joffre. "Take the squadron of British and occupy it. You should be able to do so ...
— The Boy Allies in the Trenches - Midst Shot and Shell Along the Aisne • Clair Wallace Hayes



Words linked to "Pom" :   pommy, Australia, English person, New Zealand, Commonwealth of Australia, pom-pom



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