chum

A chamber-mate; a term used in colleges.--Junius Etymologicon. We sometimes use it in the more extended meaning of companion, fellow.

A young student laid a wager with his chum, that the Dean was at that instant smoking his pipe.--Philips's Life and Poems, p. 13.

I am again your petitioner in behalf of that great chum of literature, Samuel Johnson.--Smollett, in Boswell.

Chum
·noun Chopped pieces of fish used as bait. II. Chum ·vi To occupy a chamber with another; as, to ch...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
chum
A chamber-fellow, particularly at the universities and in prison. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
chum
n. See new chum. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
new chum
n. a new arrival, especially from theold country: generally used with more or less contempt; what i...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
old chum
n. Not in common use: the oppositeto a new chum. 1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris