chum

Meaning

1. A friend; a pal.
2. A roommate, especially in a college or university.
3. To share rooms with someone; to live together.
4. To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
5. To make friends; to socialize.
6. To accompany.
7. A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
8. To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
9. A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
10. Synonym of chum salmon.
11. A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
12. A surname.

Etymology / origin

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).

Related words

Descendant words

• chum(French) (bor)
• čoms(Latvian) (uder)
• chamo(Spanish) (bor)
• tjomme(Swedish) (bor)

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