chum
see also: Chum
Pronunciation 1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Noun
Noun
Chum
Proper noun
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see also: Chum
Pronunciation 1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Noun
chum (plural chums)
- A friend; a pal.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:friend
- I ran into an old chum from school the other day.
- (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
- 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
- Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.
- 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
- Italian: vicino di stanza, compagno di stanza
- Russian: това́рищ
chum (chums, present participle chumming; past and past participle chummed)
- (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
- 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors
- Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.
- 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors
- (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
- (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part I:
- I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.
- 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w]
- "You'll make yourself disliked on board!"
- "By von Heumann merely."
- "But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?"
- "The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge."
- (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.
- I'll chum you down to the shops.
conjugation of chum
infinitive | chum | ||||||||||
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present participle | chuming | ||||||||||
past participle | chummed | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I chum | we chum | I am chuming | we are chuming | I have chummed | we have chummed | I have been chuming | we have been chuming | |||
you chum | you chum | you are chuming | you are chuming | you have chummed | you have chummed | you have been chuming | you have been chuming | ||||
he chums | they chum | he is chuming | they are chuming | he has chummed | they have chummed | he has been chuming | they have been chuming | ||||
past | I chumming | we chumming | I was chuming | we were chuming | I had chummed | we had chummed | I had been chuming | we had been chuming | |||
you chumming | you chumming | you were chuming | you were chuming | you had chummed | you had chummed | you had been chuming | you had been chuming | ||||
he chumming | they chumming | he was chuming | they were chuming | he had chummed | they had chummed | he had been chuming | they had been chuming | ||||
future | I will chum | we will chum | I will be chuming | we will be chuming | I will have chummed | we will have chummed | I will have been chuming | we will have been chuming | |||
you will chum | you will chum | you will be chuming | you will be chuming | you will have chummed | you will have chummed | you will have been chuming | you will have been chuming | ||||
he will chum | they will chum | he will be chuming | they will be chuming | he will have chummed | they will have chummed | he will have been chuming | they will have been chuming | ||||
conditional | I would chum | we would chum | I would be chuming | we would be chuming | I would have chummed | we would have chummed | I would have been chuming | we would have been chuming | |||
you would chum | you would chum | you would be chuming | you would be chuming | you would have chummed | you would have chummed | you would have been chuming | you would have been chuming | ||||
he would chum | they would chum | he would be chuming | they would be chuming | he would have chummed | they would have chummed | he would have been chuming | they would have been chuming | ||||
imperative | chum |
chum (uncountable)
- (fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks
chum (chums, present participle chumming; past and past participle chummed)
- (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
- 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide
- Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.
- 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide
Chum
Proper noun
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