pomper

English

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of pamper (“To feed luxuriously.”).

Verb

pomper (third-person singular simple present pompers, present participle pompering, simple past and past participle pompered)

1. (obsolete) To pamper; To feed luxuriously.

Further reading

• “pomper, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

French

Etymology

From pompe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃.pe/

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Verb

pomper

1. to pump
2. (Europe, slang) to copy
3. (reflexive, Quebec, slang) to grow angrier as time goes on, especially if there are no further reasons to do so
4. (slang) to fellate (1)
5. (rare) to make pumped up

Conjugation

Conjugation of pomper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pomper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pompant /pɔ̃.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pompé /pɔ̃.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pompe /pɔ̃p/	pompes /pɔ̃p/	pompe /pɔ̃p/	pompons /pɔ̃.pɔ̃/	pompez /pɔ̃.pe/	pompent /pɔ̃p/
	imperfect	pompais /pɔ̃.pɛ/	pompais /pɔ̃.pɛ/	pompait /pɔ̃.pɛ/	pompions /pɔ̃.pjɔ̃/	pompiez /pɔ̃.pje/	pompaient /pɔ̃.pɛ/
	past historic2	pompai /pɔ̃.pe/	pompas /pɔ̃.pa/	pompa /pɔ̃.pa/	pompâmes /pɔ̃.pam/	pompâtes /pɔ̃.pat/	pompèrent /pɔ̃.pɛʁ/
	future	pomperai /pɔ̃.pʁe/	pomperas /pɔ̃.pʁa/	pompera /pɔ̃.pʁa/	pomperons /pɔ̃.pʁɔ̃/	pomperez /pɔ̃.pʁe/	pomperont /pɔ̃.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pomperais /pɔ̃.pʁɛ/	pomperais /pɔ̃.pʁɛ/	pomperait /pɔ̃.pʁɛ/	pomperions /pɔ̃.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	pomperiez /pɔ̃.pə.ʁje/	pomperaient /pɔ̃.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	pompe /pɔ̃p/	pompes /pɔ̃p/	pompe /pɔ̃p/	pompions /pɔ̃.pjɔ̃/	pompiez /pɔ̃.pje/	pompent /pɔ̃p/
	imperfect2	pompasse /pɔ̃.pas/	pompasses /pɔ̃.pas/	pompât /pɔ̃.pa/	pompassions /pɔ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/	pompassiez /pɔ̃.pa.sje/	pompassent /pɔ̃.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pompe /pɔ̃p/	—	pompons /pɔ̃.pɔ̃/	pompez /pɔ̃.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• dépomper
• pompage
• pomper l’air

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

pomper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pompō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pomper

1. indefinite plural of pomp