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Romped vs Pomped - What's the difference?

romped | pomped |

As verbs the difference between romped and pomped

is that romped is past tense of romp while pomped is past tense of pomp.

romped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (romp)
  • ----

    romp

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
  • * When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
  • (US) (Often used with down ) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
  • * If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
  • * Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
  • To win easily.
  • * England romped to an easy win over Australia.
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
  • Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
  • (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of boisterous play, a frolic.
  • (slang) A bout of playful or boisterous sex.
  • * Sex romp at Windsor castle (headline in )
  • (archaic) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
  • Derived terms

    * romper suit * romp home * rompers * rompy * romper room * romping good

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    pomped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pomp)

  • pomp

    English

    Noun

  • Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  • * 1698 . "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
  • "'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour."
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
  • A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
  • * Addison
  • all the pomps of a Roman triumph

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a pompous display; to conduct.
  • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)