Noun: pom (plural poms)

1. (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, sometimes pejorative) An Englishman, a Briton; a person of British descent.
2. 1987, Linda Christmas, The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey, page 27,
3. I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.
4. 1989, Tony Wheeler, Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 10,
5. The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook.

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Alternative names for people from the United Kingdom include nicknames and terms, including affectionate ones, neutral ones, and derogatory ones to describe British people, and more specifically English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people. == Terms for the British in English == === Brit === Brit is a commonly used term in the United States and elsewhere, simply as a shortened form of "Briton." === Britisher === An archaic form of "Briton," similar to "Brit", always much more used in North America than Britain itself, but even there, it is outdated. An equivalent of the word "En...