Sekirov Dictionary

chum

/t͡ʃʌm/

verb 5
noun 5
/t͡ʃuːm/ noun 1
forms 3
phrases 2

verb5

To make friends; to socialize.
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To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
- He began to chum for sharks, using whale oil and chopped whale meat. — 1983
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(Scotland, informal) To accompany.
- I'll chum you down to the shops.
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To share rooms with someone; to live together.
- 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
To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.

noun5

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(old-fashioned) A friend; a pal.
- That made Thad think of Mark Twain, and he wondered whether the illustrious Tom Sawyer and his chum, Huckleberry Finn, had ever arranged a more fetching reception committee than this one[…] — 1919
(US, Canada) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
Synonym of chum salmon.
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(old-fashioned) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
- 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
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A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
- He uses a round slab of clay, which he places on top of the chum and commences to thump down around the sides. — 1920

chum

/t͡ʃuːm/

noun1

A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.

forms

chummed · chumming · chums

Phrases with chum

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