Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pommie adj.

also pom, pommey, pommy
[pommie n.]

(Aus.) British, English.

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[Aus]Sport (Adelaide) 31 May 12/3: What was Neil B. [...] doing out with Peter G.’s pommie tart?
[Aus]Sport (Adelaide) 5 July 9/4: They Say [...] That Jenny [...] has done her nut on the pommey chap.
[Aus]K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 76: Kitty married Gaze’s brother . . . the pommy cocky.
[Aus]T. Wood Cobbers 212: This was a ‘Pommy’ engine, type C 17.
[Aus]A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 31 May [synd. cartoon strip] You musta been in th’ pommey army a long time.
[Aus]L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: This Galsworthy is a Pommy bloke who packs a punch.
[Aus](con. 1941) E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves 94: Besides us they’ve got Pommy artillery and mug gunners.
[Aus]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.
[NZ]G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 30: The BBC announcers with their Pommie accents.
[Aus]B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 22: I’ll flatten you so help you you pommy drongo!
[Aus]W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 95: He stepped back and swore at us in his Pommie-bloody accent.
[UK]P. Fordham Inside the Und. 67: ‘Pommy’ villains were soon given a transfusion of vitality.
[Aus]Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 62: Human beings, I have been told by a pom parole officer, can become acclimatised to anything.
[Aus]K. Gilbert Living Black 241: I knew they were rotten English starlings that some pommy mug brought out to Australia.
[Aus]B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 13: The whole pommie economy is based on everyone doing a shithouse job as slowly as possible.
[Aus]J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: What’s wrong with that stuck-up Pommy tart?
[UK]J. Osborne Déjàvu Act I: Enthusiasm not appreciated. Effete and Pommie.
[UK]S. Bell If... 9 Nov. in If Files (1997) 37: Hoity Toity Pom Ratbags.
[Aus]Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 459: A pommy tourist arrives in Australia, hires a car and drives into the outback.
[US]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!
[Aus](con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 164: I don’t particularly care for your poofy pommy ways.
[Aus]P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Dick kicked the bucket and Charles sold the business to these Pommy bastards.
[UK]Guardian Mag. 30 Apr. 10/3: Australia ‘pommie tan’ competitions.
[Aus]D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘What’s a Pommy tycoon’s interest in the Burswood tender?’.
[Aus]P. Papathanasiou Stoning 236: ‘I’ve heard of that Pommy bloke’.

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