Crossword clues for pompom
pompom
- Decorative ball of tufted wool
- Decoration of lavish ceremony leading to Order of Merit
- Two Englishmen down under finding wartime weapon
- Cheerleader's accessory
- Tam topper
- Item that helps bring good cheer?
- Item for a cheerleader
- Something held and shaken by a cheerleader: Hyph
- Ski hat topper
- Item usually seen in team colors
- It might be waved in a court
- Alternative to a foam finger
- Cheerleader's prop
- Stadium sight
- Tuft on a tam
- It may be shaken by a court
- It might be shaken next to a field
- It may be waved from the top of a pyramid
- Antiaircraft cannon
- "Chicago piano"
- Ornamental tuft two little dogs displayed
- Ornamental bobble a couple of dogs required
- It was used to shoot two Brits in Victoria
- Decorative woolly ball
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pompon \Pom"pon\, n. [F.]
Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.
(Mil.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat (such as a shako), instead of a feather.
A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.
Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
the globe-shaped flower head characteristic of certain plants such as dahlias and chrysanthemums.
a ball-shaped cluster of ribbons or streamers held in the hand and waved by some cheerleaders at team sports contests. See pompom girl. Called also pompom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ornamental round tuft" (originally on a hat, etc.), 1748, alteration of pompon "ornamental tuft; tuft-like flower head," from French pompon (1725), of unknown origin; perhaps related to Old French pompe "pomp."
Wiktionary
n. (context onomatopoeia English) A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading
Usage examples of "pompom".
The cheerleaders bounced about like irregular ping-pong balls, shaking their pompoms among other things and arousing the pep squad to frenzied squeals.
The drill team formed two lines and shook their pompoms among other things.
Mahlke who during the winter after the second summer on the barge created the pompoms: two little woolen spheres the size of ping-pong balls, in solid or mixed colors, attached to a plaited woolen cord that was worn under the collar like a necktie and tied into a bow so that the two pompoms hung at an angle, more or less like a bow tie.
I have checked and am able to state authoritatively that beginning in the third winter of the war, the pompoms came to be worn almost all over Germany, but mostly in northern and eastern Germany, particularly by high-school students.
We wore the pompoms for several months, toward the end as a protest, after Dr.
Klohse, our principal, had branded this article of apparel as effeminate and unworthy of a German young man, and forbidden us to wear pompoms inside the school building or even in the recreation yard.
I saw him, left right, fiddling with something on his neck, tugging, gagging, and at length tossing something under his bench: something woolen, pompoms, a green and red mixture I think they were.
When he introduced the pompom vogue, I was the first to take it up and wear pompoms on my neck.
Schiller: no tie, no pompoms, no pendants, no screwdriver, nor any other item from his copious arsenal.
One of them had a pair of red-and-white pompoms, and she led the others in a cheer.
I wouldn't wear the multicolored cap with the pompom and jingle bells that my mother had made me one Christmas.
The pompoms remind me of Papa Brunies, a pensioned teacher who had been recalled to his post during the war.
Pompoms and machine guns from the shore were raking her upper works into smoking scrap.