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▪ I. Pom1|pɒm|
Also pom.
Colloq. abbrev. of Pomeranian n.
1904Outing Feb. 484/2 Collies and ‘poms’ in America have hardly maintained their status because of this coat trouble. 1910Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 10 June 1523/2 (heading) Coming shows... Dogs... Manchester (Poms). 1911F. T. Barton My Bk. Little Dogs iii. 33 The Pekinese and the Pom are the most popular toy dogs at the present time. 1923R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. xxi. 138 Rome..drove elegantly in hansoms, often with an enormous wolf-hound or a couple of poms. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Pract. Cats 27 And the Pugs and the Poms..will now and again join in to the fray. 1956E. Berckman Beckoning Dream vi. 46 Lydia..bred miniature Poms. In the vast living-room..twenty little dogs disported themselves. 1973R. Hill Ruling Passion ii. i. 85 ‘Not much of a guard-dog,’ he said. ‘It's a pom,’ Pascoe said patiently.
▪ II. Pom2 Austral. and N.Z. colloq.|pɒm|
Also pom.
Abbrev. of Pommy n. (a.)
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 38 Pommy, an English soldier. Pom, see Pommy. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 56 Pom, an Englishman. 1946F. Sargeson That Summer 92 He was a big matelot, though not a Pom, it was easy to tell he was a Pig Islander. 1957Economist 9 Nov. 510/2 New British migrants are more readily assimilated than continental Europeans. Australians do not consider the ‘Poms’ as foreigners. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 83 ‘Be seein' yer soon in England... Good on yer, Pom.’ 1975D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega ix. 84 You a Pom or something, sister?.. You've got a swine of a Pom accent. 1977Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Jan. 20/1 And there's New Zealand to come; and then the Centenary Test against the Poms.
▪ III. Pom3|pɒm|
Also pom.
The proprietary name of a brand of dried and powdered cooked potato.
1947Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Apr. 234/1 Pom... Cooked potatoes and potato preparations..M.P.P. (Products) Limited,..Norwich; Manufacturers. 1955G. Band Road to Rakaposhi xii. 136 The menu was..complicated..stewed steak and pom, fruit cake and tea. 1968Economist 15 June 64/3 Oddly enough, the greatest potential market for dried food is those old wartime standbys—dried milk and dried potatoes. Dehydrated potato, indistinguishable from the ‘pom’ of the 1940s,..now has a market worth {pstlg}2 million a year. 1970Times 26 Nov. 17/4 The late André Simon compiled his Dictionary of Gastronomy during the War years, presumably to cheer himself up among the snoek and pom. |