Pommyn.adj.

1913 Truth (Sydney) 8 June 1/8 The plaint of the ‘Pommie’.

1913 Sun (Sydney) 17 Aug. 22/2 The old phrase ‘new chum’ is, however fast giving way to the newer and clippier appellation of ‘pommy’, but he is still the same good-hearted, mirth-provoking individual.

1916 Anzac Bk. 31 A Pommy can't go wrong out there if he isn't too lazy to work.

1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. iv. 137 They call us Pommies and treat us as if we'd took a liberty in coming to their blooming country.

1946 B. James in Coast to Coast 1945 63 He was an Englishman, not a ‘pommy’, mind you. It seemed he hadn't even reached to that dignity.

1962 J. Frame Edge of Alphabet vii. 47 Look at the foreigners flooding the country on every immigrant ship, la-di-da Pommies and all.

1985 Sydney Morning Herald 20 June 11/6 ‘Banks was a pooftah.’ ‘Have you got any proof of that?’ ‘He was a botanist and a Pommy—what more proof do you want?’

2003 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Apr. Being Scottish I have been called Scotty and Jock. Being British, I am on occasion referred to as a Brit and here in Australia as a Pom (which I think is technically incorrect... surely only the English are Pommies?)

1913 Theatre Mag. Oct. 14 For this firm he is writing—and producing—what will be known as the ‘Pommy’ series... The first of the series is already being screened under the title ‘Pommy Arrives in Sydney’.

1916 in B. Gammage Broken Years (1974) 240 They're only a b—— lot of Pommie Jackeroos and just as hopeless.

1933 ‘P. Cadey’ Broken Pattern xii. 130 ‘You should have heard the English accent!’ ‘Pommy gab, eh?’ commented his mate.

1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 118 Look at Wally's ma—she got over her Pommy ways.

1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 214 Like most of these pommy bastards, he had funny ways but he wasn't a bad old bloke at heart.

1974 P. McCutchan Call for Simon Shard iv. 36 I'm Australian born and bred, not a pommie immigrant... Now, grand-dad, 'e was a pommie bastard!

1994 Sports Illustr. 31 Oct. 65/2 I was proud of my pommy mate.

1976 Times 9 Apr. 11/1 A ‘Pommy-bashing’ vogue which achieved undeserved notoriety last year.

2004 Rugby World Feb. 53/1 The Aussie press step up their ‘Pommie-bashing’ but England rise above it.

1916 Truth (Sydney) 1 Oct. 12/1 They come out here for their bread and butter, and also good money in hand, more than they got in Pommyland.

1993 Guardian 22 July ii. 7/5 She has a pen pal in Pommieland called Mick, who is currently making a good living by selling homing pigeons.