Pommie vs Commie - What's the difference?
pommie | commie |
(colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) An English immigrant; a pom.
* 1953 , , 2010,
* 2005 , Craig Zerf, Plob ,
* 2011 , Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam ,
(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes, pejorative) English; British.
* See citations at pommy.
(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,
* 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah?s a Two-Way Street Running Out'', ''Black World: Negro Digest ,
* 2004 , Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture ,
(pejorative, slang) Communist.
As nouns the difference between pommie and commie
is that pommie is (colloquial|australia|new zealand|south africa) an english immigrant; a pom while commie is (slang|pejorative) a communist.As adjectives the difference between pommie and commie
is that pommie is (australia|new zealand|south africa|sometimes|pejorative) english; british while commie is (slang|pejorative) communist.pommie
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Alternative forms
* pommyNoun
(en noun)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'.”“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.”
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- 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 .
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- 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.
Adjective
(-)commie
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Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)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.”
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- “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.”
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- The commies claim they are helping the blacks.