Crossword clues for chum
chum
- Friend quietly abandons idiot
- Close friend
- Good friend
- Close one
- Old pal
- Close associate
- One of the gang
- Some fish bait
- Old buddy
- Cut bait
- Toronto Radio Stn
- Shark bait
- Shark attractant
- Person close to you
- Hang-out buddy
- Friendly Salmon?
- Friendly ground-up bait?
- Fish bait or pal
- Chopped-up bait
- Bandmate, perhaps
- Associate intimately
- Associate closely
- Buddy or Pacific salmon
- Playmate
- Intimate
- Sidekick
- Cohort
- Fish scraps
- Ground-up bait
- Ground bait for fish
- Good buddy
- Fish bait, sometimes
- Pal or fisherman's lure
- Crony
- Confidant
- One to hang with
- Bosom buddy
- Buddyroo
- Bait thrown overboard
- A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
- Angler's ground bait
- Fisherman's lure, sometimes
- Oily bait
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chum \Chum\ (ch[u^]m), n. [Perh. a contraction fr. comrade or chamber fellow: cf. also AS. cuma a comer, guest.] A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
New chum, a recent immigrant. [Australia]
Chum \Chum\, v. i. [imp. p. p. Chummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chumming.] To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. [U. S.]
Chum \Chum\, n. Chopped pieces of fish used as bait. [U. S.]
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," chummage "system of quartering more than one to a room."
"fish bait," 1857, perhaps from Scottish chum "food."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A friend; a pal. 2 (context dated English) A roommate, especially in a college or university. vb. To share rooms with; to live together. Etymology 2
n. (context fishing English) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks. vb. (context fishing English) To cast '''chum''' into the water to attract fish.
WordNet
Wikipedia
CHUM may refer to:
- The former CHUM Radio division now known as Bell Media Radio
- CHUM (AM), a Toronto AM station
- CHUM-FM, a Toronto FM station
- CHUM Limited, a Canadian broadcasting group which formerly owned the above stations, now operated through Bell Media
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), a university hospital network in Montreal
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 Agincourt neighbourhood of Scarborough (with auxiliary studios located at 250 Richmond Street West in the Entertainment District of downtown Toronto), with its transmitter array located in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga (near CFRB's own transmitter array).
Long known as 1050 CHUM, the station played Top 40 hits from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. CHUM then carried an oldies format featuring music from that period between 1989 and 2009, except for a brief stint as a sports radio station, The Team 1050, from 2001-2002.
In March 2009, CHUM switched to a news format known as CP24 Radio 1050, which operated primarily as an audio simulcast of CP24.
In April 2011, CHUM reverted to a sports format as TSN Radio 1050.
"Chum" is a song by American rapper Earl Sweatshirt, released as the lead single of his 2013 debut album Doris.
A chum (pronounced "choom") is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic ( Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Khanty, Mansi, Komi) reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia of Russia. The Evenks, Tungusic peoples, tribes, in Russia, Mongolia and China also use chums. They are also used by the southernmost reindeer herders, of the Todzha region of the Republic of Tyva and their cross-border relatives in northern Mongolia. It has a design similar to a Native American tipi but some versions are less vertical. It is very closely related to the Sami lavvu in construction, but is somewhat larger in size. Some chums can be up to thirty feet (ten meters) in diameter.
The traditional chum consists of reindeer hides sewn together and wrapped around wooden poles that are organized in a circle. In the middle there is a fireplace used for heating and to keep the mosquitoes away. The smoke escapes through a hole on top of the chum. The canvas and wooden poles are usually quite heavy, but could be transported by using their reindeer. The chum is still in use today as a year-round shelter for the Yamal-Nenets, Khanty and Todzha Tyvan people of Russia.
In Russian use, the terms chum, yurt and yaranga may be used interchangeably.
The word chum came from or , both mean "tent, shelter". In different languages it has different names: Nenets: ḿāʔ , Nganasan: maʔ, Khanty: (ńuki) χot. Evenki: ǯū .
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.