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POMMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pommy mean? 

POMMY (noun)
  The noun POMMY has 1 sense:

1. a disparaging term for a British personplay

  Familiarity information: POMMY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POMMY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A disparaging term for a British person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pom; pommy

Hypernyms ("pommy" is a kind of...):

English person (a native or inhabitant of England)

Domain region:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)


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