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pompoon

pompoon is the obsolete form of pompom.

Meaning of pompom

Noun

pompom (plural pompoms)

  1. 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.

Forms of pompoon

pluralpompoons

Questions about pompoon

What is pompoon the obsolete form of?
Pompoon is the obsolete form of pompom.

Words near pompoon in the dictionary

  1. pompon flowers
  2. pomponed
  3. Pomponio
  4. Pomponios
  5. pompons
  6. pompoon
  7. pompoons
  8. pomposities
  9. pomposity
  10. pomposo
  11. pomposos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pompoon (page history and authors); pompom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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