Response last updated by looney_tunes on May 15 2021. Where then did terms such as Yank for American, or Pommies, as Australians would call Englishmen, come from. pom·mies Australian & New Zealand Offensive Slang. Its 2019 and we want to know where in the world is really, really worth visiting whether were after a beach break, a culture trip or the adventure of a. The use of the word 'Pom' may be considered mildly derogatory - some may use it to cause offence, but it is also used in other situations as a friendly derogatory term among people who know each other well, if one of them is English and the other Australian.
#Where does pommie come from skin#
A more likely etymology is that it is a contraction of "pomegranates", a red skinned fruit, which bears a more than passing resemblance to the typical pale complexioned Englishman's skin after his first few days living under the hot Australian sun. Oi, that Pommie bastard stole all me chips. Slang was almost always used by men because this lazy. None of these explanations bears up under scrutiny, and the use of acronyms is largely a late twentieth century phenomenon. pommie A derogatory word used to refer to a Brit, derived from the acronym POME ( Prisoner of Mother England). The origins are unclear, but it is fair to say there is a link through the original convicts from England. A number of fake etymologies have sprung up, mostly along the lines that POM is an acronym for "Prisoner of Mother England" or somesuch, referring to the fact that the earliest Australian settlers were convicts, sentenced to transportation. The term Pommy for a British person is commonly used in Australian English and New Zealand English, and is often shortened to Pom.
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