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Fish bait or pal
Answer for the clue "Fish bait or pal ", 4 letters:
chum
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"friend," 1680s, originally university slang for "roommate," from alternative spelling of cham , short for chamber(mate) ; typical of the late-17c. fondness for clipped words. Among derived forms used 19c. were chumship ; chummery "shared bachelor quarters," ...
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CHUM , branded as TSN Radio 1050 , broadcasting at 1050 kHz in the AM band, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto , Ontario . The station is owned and operated by Bell Media . CHUM's studios are co-located with TSN at 9 Channel Nine Court in the ...
Usage examples of chum.
Jackals, the glib Acer Loring and his chums were experts in the sneak attack.
And so we find him now about to show to his chum, Ned Newton, his latest patent, an aerial warship, which, however, was not the success Tom had hoped for.
Ned of his chum, as they walked on toward the shed of the new, big aerial warship.
As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.
But you, Chummy, you mind, old Chums, all cases of the kind, safest back the professional.
If the drack reached its home nest, it would tell others in its coven where chums could easily be had, and soon he would be overrun by a horde of the hungry beasts.
Kerian knew that the curious drack would soon mature into a full-blown drackoon, capable of breathing ice and eating a whole herd of chum.
Betty had drawn back, and now, as the fishwife spoke, in a voice which she tried to render melodious, though it ended only in a croak, the Little Captain seemed to urge her chums away.
As soon as it was time to retire that night Mont slipped upstairs and into the dormitory occupied by Hoke Ummer, Goul, and their chums.
His chum laughed, and he repeated the remark that not one miner in a thousand could live upon half-a-crown a day in those times, when for the commonest necessaries famine prices had frequently to be paid.
Aided by a prospector named Nick Porter, Frank and his chums visited Happenchance and there found the professor.
New Chum Jackeroos, had been sent up by the Government, or Labour Bureau--that is he was given a pass and some rations, and sent away almost from the ship into the disc of Australia, of which he knew absolutely nothing except the awful blaze and dust of it--the blasting reason-shaking contrast from the green lanes of England--which was driving him mad.
Old Country and for Loopy Drinkwater, the best chum a chap could ever wish to have.
Jack, who had followed their chum to the nipa hut, now entered and stood by the door.
And this was the situation when the boy, following clues secured at the nipa hut and hints obtained from Pat, who had kept his ears open during his captivity, and from French, had sailed away for Japan with his chums on a steamer which was leaving Manila for Yokohama.