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CHUMMY (chummier, chummiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: chummier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, chummiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chummy mean? 

CHUMMY (adjective)
  The adjective CHUMMY has 2 senses:

1. (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or palsplay

2. (used informally) associated on close termsplay

  Familiarity information: CHUMMY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHUMMY (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals

Synonyms:

chummy; matey; pally; palsy-walsy

Similar:

friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

chum (a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities)

chumminess (the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(used informally) associated on close terms

Synonyms:

buddy-buddy; chummy; thick

Context example:

the two were thick as thieves for months

Similar:

close (close in relevance or relationship)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

chum (a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities)

chumminess (the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability)


 Context examples 


For all practical purposes, Jupiter and Neptune will be chummy almost all year and by that, I mean within mathematical significance until mid-November.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Hallao, chummy!” said he, “what’s your name, and what are you here for?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is an unprecedented thing, I take it, for a captain to be chummy with the cook; but this is certainly what Wolf Larsen is doing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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