chumming

Verb (1)

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
   • 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.
3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
   • I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I

   Synonyms:

   chum up

4. (Scotland, informal, transitive) To accompany.
   • I'll chum you down to the shops.

Verb (2)

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (ambitransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
   • He began to chum for sharks, using whale oil and chopped whale meat.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 176

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