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Pommy

noun Pom·my \ ˈpä-mē \
variants: or Pommie

Definition of Pommy

plural Pommies
slang, Australia and New Zealand, usually disparaging
: briton; especially : an English immigrant

Origin and Etymology of pommy

by shortening & alteration from pomegranate, alteration of Jimmy Grant, rhyming slang for immigrant

First Known Use: 1912

in the meaning defined above

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