Pommy
/ˈpɒmi
/(also Pommie) Australian /NZ informal, often derogatory
adjective
British: a Pommy accent...
- I'm only surprised he didn't raise his usual point about weak post-war Pommy sides.
- I wish he'd gone back to Britian with the rest of his Pommy mates.
- I knew, I just knew that only a little way beneath my Pommy veneer, an Aussie was waiting to emerge.
noun (plural Pommies)
A British person.The decidedly un-exotic name of the obscure English county, delivered in a camp Pommy lisp, has a legendary effect....
- Not that we're whingeing, we leave that to our Pommy immigrants.
- I wish he's have gone back to Britain with the rest of his Pommy mates.
Phrases
(as) dry as a Pommy's towel
(as) full as a Pommy complaint box
Origin
Early 20th century: apparently a shortening of pomegranate, rhyming slang for 'immigrant'.