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Commie vs Chommie - What's the difference?

commie | chommie |

As nouns the difference between commie and chommie

is that commie is (slang|pejorative) a communist while chommie is (south africa|slang) a friend; a chum.

As an adjective commie

is (slang|pejorative) communist.

commie

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
  • * 1960 , Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls , 2003, page 49,
    • “Jack Kennedy?s one commie ,” he said, “and tonight maybe they?ll elect him President, and we?ll all get killed. You know.”
  • * 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah?s a Two-Way Street Running Out'', ''Black World: Negro Digest , page 67,
    • “Why, them dirty commies', of course. They?re the ones startin? all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin? niggers wasn?t causin? no trouble until them Yankee ' commies started in.”
  • * 2004 , Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture , page 48,
    • The commies claim they are helping the blacks.
    Synonyms
    * commo (Australia)
    See also
    * red under the bed

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (pejorative, slang) Communist.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial, Australia) A .

    • Etymology 3

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial, army) A .

    • chommie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chomma * tjommie

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang) A friend; a chum.