Yomped vs Pomped - What's the difference?
yomped | pomped |
(yomp)
To make a strenuous long-distance march.
* 1989 , Derek Oakley, The Falklands Military Machine? , page 155
* 2001 , Peter F. Hamilton, "The Suspect Genome", part 2
* 2006 , Tim Moore, Travels with My Donkey? , page 133
(pomp)
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.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
* Addison
As verbs the difference between yomped and pomped
is that yomped is (yomp) while pomped is (pomp).yomped
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Verb
(head)yomp
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(wikipedia yomp)Verb
(en verb)- Whilst 3 Para and 45 Commando yomped across East Falkland, accompanied by the two Troops of Blues and Royals, 42 Commando were helicoptered forward to Mount Kent and 2 Para to Bluff Cove.
- She gestured out of the window wall. "Unless it was a real professional who yomped in over the fields, the only way to get here is to drive through the village. And believe me, that's not so easy."
- He was French, and spoke in damning terms of the 'contre-la-montre' walkers who yomped' in before lunch-time and ' yomped out again before dawn
Synonyms
* (to make a march) trekReferences
Anagrams
*pomped
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Verb
(head)pomp
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Noun
- "'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."
- 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.
- all the pomps of a Roman triumph