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Chum

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A crony, a familiar companion, properly a bedfellow; a corruption either of chamber-mate or comrade.

“To have a good chum is one of the pleasantest parts of a voyage.”—Nordhoff: Merchant Vessels. chap. xii. p. 164.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Chronicle Small Beer (To)
Chronicon ex Chronicis
Chronon-hoton-thologos [ch = k]
Chrysalis [ch = k]
Chrysaor [ch = k]
Chrysippus
Chubb (Thomas)
Chuck Full
Chukwa
Chum
Chum in with (To)
Church
Church-goer (A)
Church Invisible (The)
Church Militant
Church Porch (The)
Church Triumphant (The)
Church Visible (The)
Churched
Churchwarden (A)