chum

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• 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

  n. See new chum. ...

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

• chum

  A chamber-mate; a term used in colleges.--Junius Etymologicon. We sometimes use it in the more exten...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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