chummery noun2 •The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day. — 1887 •(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj. formschummeries
