chum
chum (c̸hum)
noun
- Archaic a roommate
- a close friend
Etymology: late 17th-c. slang; prob. altered sp. of cham, clipped form of chamber (fellow), chamber (mate)
intransitive verb chummed, chum′·ming
- Archaic to share the same room
- to go about together, as close friends do to chum around
☆ chum (c̸hum)
noun
fish or mollusks cut into pieces and scattered in the water to attract game fish to a fishing area
Etymology: < ? Scot chum, food
intransitive verb chummed, chum·ming
to use chum to attract fish
chum (c̸hum)
noun
Converse of object
- game-play: Off a game-playing chums dryer tips taxes floor of the.
- have: What would they have done if they had no school chums like Barry and Stephen?
- meet: Also met a chum from the 19th Battalion, Frank Long.
- make: It might be a mongrel, but we reckon it makes a pedigree chum.
- do: Syd would then ask " What would you do, chums?
- get: Got a chum who won't let up about how great Dogs Dies In Hot Cars are?
Adjective modifier
- canine: Grand Finale Friends United Best collection of canine chums.
- old: However, an old college chum had passed on a tip.
- former: Surely, comrade Galloway would have insisted on an active relationship with his former chums on the Labor left.
- little: Come on sun, get your finger out my little chums want to do some sunbathing!
- good: Our good chum Tim Ireland has done us proud with this excellent logo.
- great: It was lovely to see, everybody ended up great chums.
Modifies a noun
- mixer: There they are, floating about on the top, so you introduce a few chum mixers.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: To have chummed up with him would have been fatal the common dodge.
Preposition: of
- mine: The other day I was chatting away with a fishing chum of mine about strange things we have seen whilst on the bank.
Noun used with modifier
- pedigree: Is there really any such thing as a pedigree chum?
- college: However, an old college chum had passed on a tip.
- school: The school chum contact page is also a good addition.
- boyhood: He set about selling shares to those members of his workforce who had been his boyhood chums.
- childhood: It's the everyday story of a showbiz tyro, his childhood chum and Auntie.
Nationalism, and its chum, patriotism, encourage unedifying hyperbole.
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- church
- church key
