chum
/t͡ʃʌm/ verb C2- To share rooms with someone; to live together.
- To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
- To make friends; to socialize.
He/she/it chums · Past chummed · Past participle chummed · -ing form chumming
Verb forms
- Base form
- chum
- He/she/it
- chums
- Past
- chummed
- Past participle
- chummed
- -ing form
- chumming
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The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one’s best chum would have forever and ever branded as “awful mean” the girl who did it.
On the evening when the Queen’s class first remained in school for the extra lessons and Anne saw Diana go slowly out with the others, to walk home alone through the Birch Path and Violet Vale, it was all the former could do to keep her seat and refrain from rushing impulsively after her chum.
I wrote to the mother, therefore—I had had quite enough of the curmudgeon of a father—and I made a clean frontal attack: Godfrey was my chum, I had a great deal of interest which I might tell her of our common experiences, I should be in the neighbourhood, would there be any objection, et cetera?
“Twenty years ago to-night,” said the man, “I dined here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap in the world.
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