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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'pom' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions pom noun  An American alcoholic drink containing vodka and pomegranate juice. (Australian, pejorative) An Englishman, A Briton, A person of British decent. Etymology: A contraction of pomegranate, rhyming slang for immigrant ("imme-granate"). The older term of Jimmy Grant meaning immigrant became Pommy Grant as the Austrailian sun turned the immigrants skin pomegranate red.Many folk etymology, folk etymologies also exist: A devolution of "Prisoner of His/Her Majesty" or "POHM" An acronym for "Prisoner of Mother England"        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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