pom

• (Briton or Englishman): Pom

A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912[1][2] as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑm/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɔm/

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

pom (plural poms)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
   • 1987, Linda Christmas, The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey, page 27:

     I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.

   • 1989, Tony Wheeler, Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 10:

     The prize for being Australia′s original pom 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?, page 214:

     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 a Pom’.

2. (cocktail) A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.

Whether pom, pommy, etc. is sometimes considered an ethnic or racial slur within the Commonwealth, largely by British expatriates; however the advertising boards of both Australia and New Zealand reject this.

• (An Englishman or Briton): See Briton and Englishman

• kiwi, pompom, Yank

• MOP, MPO, OPM, PMO, mop

pom

1. copal

• pomu

From Latin pōmus. Compare Daco-Romanian pom.

pom m (plural ponj)

1. fruit tree
2. fruit

• arburi
• fructu

Inherited from Latin pōmum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈpom]

pom m (plural poms)

1. bunch, bouquet

   Synonym: ramell

2. pommel, knob, doorknob
3. a scent-bottle with a rounded shape
4. (botany) pome
5. (historical) orb (golden ball symbolising royal power)

   Synonyms: globus, món

• pomejat
• pomell

• poma
• pòmul

• “pom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

pom

1. copal

pom

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of pôr:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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pom (Latin spelling)

1. apple

   Synonym: mansana

From French pomme.

pom

1. apple

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

From Latin pōmus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian pom.

pom m

1. fruit tree

• arbur

Borrowed from French pompe.

pom

1. to pump

Inherited from Latin pōmus, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”), from *h₂epo (“off”) + *h₁em- (“take”). See pōmum.

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pom m (plural pomi)

1. fruit tree

• arbore
• copac

pom

1. copal

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *bu̯ət (“to see”). Cognate with Iu Mien buatc.

• IPA^(key): /pɒ˩̰/

pom

1. to see
2. to tattle

• Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land →ISBN, 2004)

pom

1. copal