Pommie
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pÉ’mi/
Alternative forms
Full definition of pommie
Noun
pommie
(plural pommies)- (colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) An English immigrant; a pom.
- 1953, Nevil Shute, , 2010, %22pommies%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zg7jT7D2B-2QiAeTrq2LDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pommie%22|%22pommies%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,“It′ll be a long time before I do that,†the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.â€...“Too right, it′s difficult,†the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.â€
- 2005, Craig Zerf, Plob, %22pommies%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zg7jT7D2B-2QiAeTrq2LDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pommie%22|%22pommies%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 234,A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.
- 2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, %22pommies%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zg7jT7D2B-2QiAeTrq2LDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pommie%22|%22pommies%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts....If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.