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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A friend; a pal.
- (fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
- (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
Verbit
- To share rooms with; to live together.
- (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
- To make friends with; to socialize.
- (Scotland, informal) To accompany.
Esimerkit
- I ran into an old chum from school the other day.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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. This was the foreman -- a boiler-maker by trade -- a good worker...
- "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."
- I'll chum you down to the shops.
- Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.
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