Chum
[tʃʌm]
Definition
(noun.) bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish.
Edited by Lelia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
(v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college.
(n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chamber-fellow, room-mate.
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Definition
n. a chamber-fellow: friend or associate chiefly among schoolboys and students.—v.i. and v.t. to occupy or to put one into the same room with another.—n. Chum′mage the quartering of two or more persons in one room: a fee demanded from a new chum.—adj. Chum′my sociable.—n. a chimney-sweeper's boy: a chum.
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Examples
- But he and his chum had a line between their homes, built of common stove-pipe wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I had it from a party who was an old chum of Bulstrode's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You don't imagine that they would set upon me, and let my prison chum go? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No, sir, such a man will look after himself and will look after his chums. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I know he has had her in his mind this five years or more: one of his chums told me as much; and he was only kept back by her want of fortune. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You'll have a chummage ticket upon twenty-seven in the third, and them as is in the room will be your chums. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Why, him in twenty-seven in the third, that this gentleman's going to be chummed on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I think Roker might have chummed you somewhere else,' said Mr. Simpson (for it was the leg), after a very discontented sort of a pause. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You'll be chummed on somebody to-morrow, and then you'll be all snug and comfortable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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