chum

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /tʃʌm/

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh chymrawd (“fellow”) (c.f. Cymru (“Wales”)).

chum (plural chums)

1. A friend; a pal.

   I ran into an old chum from school the other day.

2. (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.

• See also Thesaurus:friend

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (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.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

2. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in Heart of Darkness:

     “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

     "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."

4. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.

   I'll chum you down to the shops.

Perhaps from Powhatan.

chum (uncountable)

1. (fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks

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chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 176:

     He began to chum for sharks, using whale oil and chopped whale meat.

   • 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.

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Borrowed from English chum

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔm/

chum m (plural chums)

1. (Canada, informal) boyfriend (feminine counterpart: blonde)

   Elle m'a présenté son nouveau chum.

   She introduced me to her new boyfriend.

   Je croyais qu'il était rien qu'un ami à Éric mais en fait c'est son chum.

   I believed that he was just another of Éric's friends, but in fact, it's his boyfriend.

2. (Canada, chiefly slang) a friend, usually male; a chum (feminine form: chum de fille)

   J'suis allé danser avec une gang de chums.

   I went to dance with a group of my male friends.

• (boyfriend): petit ami, ami de cœur, fiancé (dated), conjoint
• (friend): copain, ami

Inflected form of cum.

• IPA^(key): /xuːmˠ/, /xʊmˠ/

chum

1. past indicative analytic of cum
2. Lenited form of cum.

From Old Irish dochum.

• IPA^(key): /xʊnˠ/

chum (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

1. Obsolete spelling of chun

·chum

1. Lenited form of ·cum.

chum

1. Alternative form of chun

chum

1. past indicative of cum

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕum˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕum˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [cʊm˧˧]

(classifier cái) chum (𡓯)

1. a kind of vase used to contain water

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