Pomn.1
/pɒm/, U.S. /pɑm/ colloquial.
A Pomeranian dog.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > toy > Pomeranian
Pomeranian1791
loulou1894
Pom1904
1904 Outing Feb. 484/2 Collies and ‘poms’ in America have hardly maintained their status because of this coat trouble.
1911 F. T. Barton My Bk. Little Dogs iii. 33 The Pekinese and the Pom are the most popular toy dogs at the present time.
1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 27 And the Pugs and the Poms..will now and again join in to the fray.
1973 R. Hill Ruling Passion ii. i. 85 ‘Not much of a guard-dog,’ he said. ‘It's a pom,’ Pascoe said patiently.
1993 Dog World Feb. 57/2 The Pom has a magnificent coat, a beautiful face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Pomn.2adj.
/pɒm/, U.S. /pɑm/, Australian English /pɔm/, New Zealand English /pɒm/ Australian and New Zealand colloquial (usually derogatory).
= Pommy n. Also as adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Britain
British-maneOE
Briton1679
Britoner1799
Great Britainer1809
Britisher1815
Great British1843
Angrezi1866
Angrez1877
Brit1884
heaven-born1886
Pom1912
Pommy1913
choom1916
pongo1942
1912 Truth (Sydney) 10 Nov. 1/8 The comic British citizen, That leans against a post; They used to say colonials did, But I'm very much afraid, Upon the ‘Poms’ I'd put my quid.
1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 92 He was a big matelot, though not a Pom, it was easy to tell he was a Pig Islander.
1957 Economist 9 Nov. 510/2 New British migrants are more readily assimilated than continental Europeans. Australians do not consider the ‘Poms’ as foreigners.
1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega ix. 84 You a Pom or something, sister?.. You've got a swine of a Pom accent.
2003 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 15/1 The ruling also affects British migrants who arrived [in Australia] under the post-war assisted passage scheme: the so-called Ten Pound Poms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
Pomn.3
/pɒm/, U.S. /pɑm/ Now historical.
A type of dried and powdered cooked potato.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > dried potato
potato flake1917
Pom1947
1947 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Apr. 234/1 Pom... Cooked potatoes and potato preparations.
1955 G. Band Road to Rakaposhi xii. 136 The menu was..complicated..stewed steak and pom, fruit cake and tea.
1968 Economist 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 £2 million a year.
1997 Food Manuf. (Nexis) June 16 Catering outlets were supplied with a dehydrated potato called Pom (it was so awful that it set a whole generation against the technology).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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