pommie
/pɒmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
English; British.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "“It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.”"
- "A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie."
- "There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl."
- "See citations at pommy."