Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) British, English.

1913		Sport (Adelaide) 31 May 12/3: What was Neil B. [...] doing out with Peter G.’s pommie tart?
1913		Sport (Adelaide) 5 July 9/4: They Say [...] That Jenny [...] has done her nut on the pommey chap.
1926		K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 76: Kitty married Gaze’s brother . . . the pommy cocky.
1934		T. Wood Cobbers 212: This was a ‘Pommy’ engine, type C 17.
1941		A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 31 May [synd. cartoon strip] You musta been in th’ pommey army a long time.
1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: This Galsworthy is a Pommy bloke who packs a punch.
1951		(con. 1941) E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves 94: Besides us they’ve got Pommy artillery and mug gunners.
1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 80: The brawls we used to have with the pommy kids in our street, and how they reckoned a colonial would never do anything right.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 30: The BBC announcers with their Pommie accents.
1963–74		B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 22: I’ll flatten you so help you you pommy drongo!
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 95: He stepped back and swore at us in his Pommie-bloody accent.
1972		P. Fordham Inside the Und. 67: ‘Pommy’ villains were soon given a transfusion of vitality.
1974		Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 62: Human beings, I have been told by a pom parole officer, can become acclimatised to anything.
1977		K. Gilbert Living Black 241: I knew they were rotten English starlings that some pommy mug brought out to Australia.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 13: The whole pommie economy is based on everyone doing a shithouse job as slowly as possible.
1989		J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: What’s wrong with that stuck-up Pommy tart?
1991		J. Osborne Déjàvu Act I: Enthusiasm not appreciated. Effete and Pommie.
1995		S. Bell If... 9 Nov. in If Files (1997) 37: Hoity Toity Pom Ratbags.
1996		Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 459: A pommy tourist arrives in Australia, hires a car and drives into the outback.
1999		People (Sydney) 5 July 65/2: A pervy Pommy postie copped a year in the clink for stealing a whopping eight mailbags full of sex toys!
2001		(con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 164: I don’t particularly care for your poofy pommy ways.
2005		P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Dick kicked the bucket and Charles sold the business to these Pommy bastards.
2011		Guardian Mag. 30 Apr. 10/3: Australia ‘pommie tan’ competitions.
2016		D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘What’s a Pommy tycoon’s interest in the Burswood tender?’.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 236: ‘I’ve heard of that Pommy bloke’.