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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- chum [tʃ^m]
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1.
n
[informal]
a close friend
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2.
vi.
[intr;
usually foll by up with] to be or become an intimate friend (of) -
3.
vt.
[tr]
[Scot]
to accompany
- I'll chum you home
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4.
vt.
[Etymology]
C17 (meaning: a person sharing rooms with another): probably shortened from chamber fellow, originally student slang (Oxford); compare
crony
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1.
n
[informal]
a close friend
- chum [tʃ^m]
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1.
n
[angling]
[chiefly US and Canadian]
chopped fish, meal, etc, used as groundbait
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2.
n
[Etymology]
C19: origin uncertain
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1.
n
[angling]
[chiefly US and Canadian]
chopped fish, meal, etc, used as groundbait
- chum [tʃυm] ['xυməʃ]
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1.
n
a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus keta
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2.
n
[Etymology]
from Chinook Jargon tsum spots, marks, from Chinook
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3.
n
[Judaism]
a printed book containing one of the Five Books of Moses
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4.
n
[Etymology]
literally: a fifth (part of the Torah)
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1.
n
a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus keta
Examples
- I'll chum you home → chum
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