Etymology

pompom

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Today it means: A ball made of pieces of soft fabric, tinsel, plastic, or paper streamers, tied together in the middle and left loose at the ends, used as decoration or as a showy prop for cheerleading. Full definition →

French pompon ← Old French pomp
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frompomp
  2. French · derived frompompon“ornamental tuft”
  3. English todaypompom

Alteration of pompon, from French pompon (“ornamental tuft”); of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old French pomp.

Words from the same roots

Frenchpompon all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.