Pomme vs Pommie - What's the difference?
pomme | pommie |
(heraldiccharge) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple. Also pomey.
(colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) An English immigrant; a pom.
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(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, sometimes, pejorative) English; British.
* See citations at pommy.
As nouns the difference between pomme and pommie
is that pomme is a roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple. Also pomey while pommie is an English immigrant; a pom.As adjectives the difference between pomme and pommie
is that pomme is having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls while pommie is english; British.pomme
English
From (etyl), ultimately from poma.Noun
pomme' (plural ' pomeis )References
*Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry , Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.pommie
English
Alternative forms
* pommyNoun
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- “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.