pompon

• pompom

From French pompon (“ornamental tuft”).

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pompon (plural pompons)

1. A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading.
2. A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads.
3. Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.

• pompon flower

pompon

1. accusative of pompo

First attested in 1556. Possibly from a root *pomp-, used to express roundness, or related to pompe.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃.pɔ̃/

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pompon m (plural pompons)

1. pompon (bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc.)
2. (figurative) culmination; climax; a very good or bad exemplar or end result

   Synonyms: comble, bouquet

   c’est le pompon ! ― That takes the cake!

• “pompon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pompon m (invariable)

1. pompom, pompon

Variant of pepon, borrowed from Latin peponem, accusative singular of pepō.

pompon m (plural pompons)

1. melon
2. cucumber

• → Dutch: pompoen, pampoen (obsolete, rare)
  • Afrikaans: pampoen
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: pampuna
  • Negerhollands: pampuen, pampon
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: pum pum (dated)
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: pampun
  • → Papiamentu: pampuna, pampoena
  • → Sranan Tongo: pampun
    • → Saramaccan: pampú
  • → West Frisian: pompoen
• → English: pumpion, pompion
  • → Cornish: pompyon
  • → Welsh: pwmpen
  • ⇒ pumpkin (see there for further descendants)

pompe +‎ -on.

pompon m (plural pompons)

1. decorative tassel

Borrowed from French pompon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔm.pɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmpɔn
• Syllabification: pom‧pon

pompon m inan (diminutive pomponik)

1. pompon

• pompon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pompon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French pompon.

pompon n (plural pompoane)

1. pompom