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chum
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /t??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).
Noun
chum (plural chums)
- (dated) A friend; a pal.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
- (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
- 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine [1]
- 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.
- 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine [1]
Derived terms
- chummy
Descendants
- ? Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)
- ? Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)
- ? French: chum (Quebec)
Translations
Verb
chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)
- (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
- 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors [2]
- 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.
- 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors [2]
- (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
- (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
- 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [3]
- "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."
- 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [3]
- (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan.
Noun
chum (uncountable)
- (fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks
Derived terms
- chumsicle
Translations
Verb
chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)
- (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
- 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide [4]
- Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.
- 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide [4]
Etymology 3
Noun
chum (plural chums)
- (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
- 1915, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 11, O'Gorman Publishing Company.
- ...self-supporting chum within the mould normally of corresponding and almost the same but lesser contour, whereby a space is provided between the chum and mould for the introduction of the powdered material and means for expanding the chum'.
- 1920, The South African Journal of Industries, volume 3, part 2, p. 820
- He uses a round slab of clay, which he places on top of the chum and commences to thump down around the sides.
- 1921, A Survey and Analysis of the Pottery Industry, bulletin no. 67, trade and industrial series no. 20, Washington: Federal Board for Vocational Training.
- Chum,—A mold used on the whirler to hold ware for scraping and finishing.
- 1972, Neal French, Industrial Ceramics—Tableware, Oxford University Press
- Now that shapes were more uniform this was usually done on a horizontal lathe with the bowl automatically centred on a wooden chum
- This is a more useful method: it is used in making oval casseroles. The liner is made by spreading a bat and tehn forming it over a felt-covered chum, oval in shape.
- Chum or chuck: Lathe attachment for holding pots during turning process.
- 1915, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 11, O'Gorman Publishing Company.
Anagrams
- much
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English chum
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??m/
Noun
chum m (plural chums, feminine blonde or chum de fille)
- (Canada, informal, Quebec) boyfriend (feminine counterpart: blonde)
- (Canada, chiefly slang, Quebec) a friend, usually male; a chum (feminine form: chum de fille)
Synonyms
- (boyfriend): petit ami, ami de cœur, fiancé (dated), conjoint
- (friend): copain, ami
Derived terms
- chum de fille
Irish
Etymology 1
Inflected form of cum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xu?m?/, /x?m?/
Verb
chum
- past indicative analytic of cum
- Lenited form of cum.
Etymology 2
From Old Irish dochum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /x?n?/
Preposition
chum (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)
- Obsolete spelling of chun
Old Irish
Verb
·chum
- Lenited form of ·cum.
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *quma?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma?, from Proto-Austronesian *quma?. Cognate with Cebuano umang, Tiruray kumang, Marshallese om?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?um/
Noun
chum
- hermit crab
Scottish Gaelic
Preposition
chum
- Alternative form of chun
Verb
chum
- past indicative of cum
Mutation
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [t??um??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [t??um??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [c?m??]
Noun
(classifier cái) chum • (????)
- a kind of vase used to contain water
See also
- lu
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paramour
English
Alternative forms
- paramours
Etymology
From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pæ.??.m??/, /?pæ.??.m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæ??m??/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Noun
paramour (plural paramours)
- (somewhat archaic) An illicit lover, either male or female.
- Synonyms: leman, mistress; see also Thesaurus:mistress
- (obsolete) The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
Translations
Adverb
paramour (not comparable)
- (obsolete, of loving, etc.) Passionately, out of sexual desire. [from 14thc.]
- Synonyms: devotedly, passionately
- For paramour I loved her fyrst ere thou.
Further reading
- paramour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “paramour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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