"chum" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃʌm/ Audio: en-us-chum.ogg [US] Forms: chums [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌm Etymology: 1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|cham}} cham, {{m|en|chambermate}} chambermate, {{m|en|comrade}} comrade, {{der|en|cy|cymrawd|t=fellow}} Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), {{m|cy|brawd|t=brother}} brawd (“brother”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} chum (plural chums)
  1. (dated) A friend; a pal. Tags: dated Synonyms: friend Translations (a friend; a pal): приятел (prijatel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), company [masculine] (Catalan), camarada [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), kámoš [masculine] (Czech), Kumpel [masculine] (German), Freund [masculine] (German), haver (Hungarian), cimbora (Hungarian), pajtás (Hungarian), koma (Hungarian), barát (Hungarian), amico [masculine] (Italian), ба́тка (bátka) [masculine] (Macedonian), при́јател (príjatel) [masculine] (Macedonian), Schlockat [masculine] (Plautdietsch), прия́тель (prijátelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), amigote [masculine] (Spanish), amiguete [masculine] (Spanish), compinche [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), compañero [masculine] (Spanish), camarada [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), amigo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-chum-en-noun-8IwkyMmO Disambiguation of 'a friend; a pal': 97 3
  2. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university. Tags: dated Translations (a roommate): съквартирант (sǎkvartirant) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Mitbewohner [masculine] (German), szobatárs (Hungarian), kunvivanto (Ido), vicino di stanza (Italian), compagno di stanza [masculine] (Italian), ци́мер (címer) [masculine] (Macedonian), това́рищ m по комнате (po) (Russian), сожитель (sožitelʹ) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-chum-en-noun-hBlnnRLy Disambiguation of 'a roommate': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bum chum, chummery, chumming, chummy, chumocracy, chumship, chum up, dumb chum, new chum, Spec-chum
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃʌm/ Audio: en-us-chum.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ʌm Etymology: Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan. Etymology templates: {{der|en|pim|-}} Powhatan Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} chum (uncountable)
  1. (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks. Tags: Canada, US, uncountable Categories (topical): Fishing Derived forms: chum in the water, chumsicle Translations (fishy groundbait): μαλάγρα (malágra) [feminine] (Greek), 撒き餌 (makie) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-chum-en-noun-rKyNiXFW Categories (other): American English, Canadian English Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃʌm/ Audio: en-us-chum.ogg [US] Forms: chums [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌm Head templates: {{en-noun}} chum (plural chums)
  1. (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually. Categories (topical): Ceramics
    Sense id: en-chum-en-noun-OnJrw3oi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃʌm/ Audio: en-us-chum.ogg [US] Forms: chums [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌm Etymology: From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”), from Chinook. Etymology templates: {{der|en|chn|tzum|t=spotted, marked}} Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”), {{der|en|chh|-}} Chinook Head templates: {{en-noun}} chum (plural chums)
  1. Synonym of chum salmon Synonyms: chum salmon [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-chum-en-noun-~5ZRSgjp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃuːm/ Forms: chums [plural]
Rhymes: -uːm Etymology: From Russian чум (čum), from Komi-Zyrian чум (ćum) and/or Udmurt чум (ćum, “tent, shelter”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ru|чум}} Russian чум (čum), {{der|en|kpv|чум}} Komi-Zyrian чум (ćum), {{der|en|udm|чум|t=tent, shelter}} Udmurt чум (ćum, “tent, shelter”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} chum (plural chums)
  1. A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
    Sense id: en-chum-en-noun-S56akTCE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 5

Verb

IPA: /t͡ʃʌm/ Audio: en-us-chum.ogg [US] Forms: chums [present, singular, third-person], chumming [participle, present], chummed [participle, past], chummed [past]
Rhymes: -ʌm Etymology: 1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|cham}} cham, {{m|en|chambermate}} chambermate, {{m|en|comrade}} comrade, {{der|en|cy|cymrawd|t=fellow}} Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), {{m|cy|brawd|t=brother}} brawd (“brother”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} 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. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-chum-en-verb-Eadm--fA
  2. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-chum-en-verb-tjWeUmXZ
  3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-chum-en-verb-yYq1qt0A
  4. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany. Tags: Scotland, informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-chum-en-verb-SYytOCGU Categories (other): Scottish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /t͡ʃʌm/ Audio: en-us-chum.ogg [US] Forms: chums [present, singular, third-person], chumming [participle, present], chummed [participle, past], chummed [past]
Rhymes: -ʌm Etymology: Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan. Etymology templates: {{der|en|pim|-}} Powhatan Head templates: {{en-verb}} chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)
  1. (fishing, transitive, intransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish. Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Fishing
    Sense id: en-chum-en-verb-5UrX5f-E Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for chum meaning in English (20.9kB)

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bum chum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chummery"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chumming"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chummy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chumocracy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chumship"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chum up"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "dumb chum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "new chum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Spec-chum"
    }
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          "args": {
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            "2": "chum",
            "bor": "3",
            "qq": "Québec"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: chum (Québec)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: chum (Québec)"
    },
    {
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            "1": "es",
            "2": "chamo",
            "bor": "2",
            "qq": "Venezuela"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: chamo (Venezuela)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: chamo (Venezuela)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "srn",
            "2": "tyamu"
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          "expansion": "Sranan Tongo: tyamu",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Sranan Tongo: tyamu"
    },
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          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "tjomme",
            "bor": "1",
            "qq": "Gothenburg dialect"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "no",
            "2": "tjommi",
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            "qq": "Bergen dialect"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)"
    }
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        "2": "chambermate"
      },
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Donald Ferguson, chapter 13, in The Chums of Scranton High, or Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight, Cleveland, New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., page 114",
          "text": "That made Thad think of Mark Twain, and he wondered whether the illustrious Tom Sawyer and his chum, Huckleberry Finn, had ever arranged a more fetching reception committee than this one[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016-07-07, Sarah Lyall, “British Politics Gives a Sense of Government by Old School Chums”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Looking at the backgrounds of the leading personalities in the Brexit drama, it is hard not to conclude that Britain has been led into crisis in large part by a bunch of old chums who spent the last year holed up in a political hall of mirrors, plotting with and scheming against one another.",
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        "A friend; a pal."
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        "(dated) A friend; a pal."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "prijatel",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "приятел"
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        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "company"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "camarada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kámoš"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Kumpel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Freund"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "word": "haver"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "word": "cimbora"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "word": "pajtás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "word": "koma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "word": "barát"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amico"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "bátka",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ба́тка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "príjatel",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "при́јател"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Schlockat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prijátelʹ",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "прия́тель"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amigote"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amiguete"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "compinche"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "compañero"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "camarada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a friend; a pal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amigo"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856 February, Paul Siogvolk, “Schediasms: My College Friend, Bosworth Field”, in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 47, number 2, page 161",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A roommate, especially in a college or university."
      ],
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        "(dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university."
      ],
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        "dated"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sǎkvartirant",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "съквартирант"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Mitbewohner"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "word": "szobatárs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "word": "kunvivanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "word": "vicino di stanza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "compagno di stanza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "címer",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ци́мер"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "po",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "word": "това́рищ m по комнате"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sožitelʹ",
          "sense": "a roommate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "сожитель"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "rhymes": "-ʌm"
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      "form": "chummed",
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        {
          "ref": "1899, Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors",
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        "present",
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          "ref": "1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 176",
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        [
          "friend",
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          "pal",
          "pal"
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        "(dated) A friend; a pal."
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        {
          "word": "friend"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
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        {
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          "text": "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.",
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        "A roommate, especially in a college or university."
      ],
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        [
          "roommate",
          "roommate"
        ]
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        "(dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university."
      ],
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        "dated"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prijatel",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "приятел"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "company"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camarada"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kámoš"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kumpel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Freund"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "word": "haver"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "word": "cimbora"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "word": "pajtás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "word": "koma"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "word": "barát"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amico"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ба́тка"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "príjatel",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "при́јател"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlockat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prijátelʹ",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прия́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amigote"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amiguete"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "compinche"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "compañero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camarada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a friend; a pal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎkvartirant",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "съквартирант"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mitbewohner"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "word": "szobatárs"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "word": "kunvivanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "word": "vicino di stanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "compagno di stanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "címer",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ци́мер"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "po",
      "sense": "a roommate",
      "word": "това́рищ m по комнате"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sožitelʹ",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сожитель"
    }
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}

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        "(transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany."
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/t͡ʃʌm/"
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "chum in the water"
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      "word": "chumsicle"
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          "ref": "2021-03-18, Sarah Zhang, “A Gruesome Feeding Frenzy in the Atlantic Ocean”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "The whale’s floating body also forms a chum slick on the surface—a trail of blood, oil, and chunks of fat and flesh that might stretch for miles across the water. […] This chum slick is what attracts sharks from afar. Seabirds are drawn to it too.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "Most of us have seen the movie “Jaws”. Sheriff Brody is complaining about being the lucky one in charge of creating a chum line out of the back of the boat. The bucket is full of an awful combination of fish parts and blood. As he ladles scoop after scoop into the ocean, clearly, it was working…",
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        [
          "rancid",
          "rancid"
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        [
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          "groundbait"
        ],
        [
          "predator",
          "predator"
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        [
          "shark",
          "shark"
        ]
      ],
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        "(fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/t͡ʃʌm/"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "malágra",
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        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "ja",
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      "word": "撒き餌"
    }
  ],
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      "form": "chumming",
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          "ref": "1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 176",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide",
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        "(fishing, transitive, intransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish."
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        {
          "ref": "1915, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 11, O'Gorman Publishing Company.",
          "text": "...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'.",
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        {
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        },
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          "text": "1921, A Survey and Analysis of the Pottery Industry, bulletin no. 67, trade and industrial series no. 20, Washington: Federal Board for Vocational Training.\nChum,—A mold used on the whirler to hold ware for scraping and finishing."
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        {
          "ref": "1972, Neal French, Industrial Ceramics—Tableware, Oxford University Press",
          "text": "Now that shapes were more uniform this was usually done on a horizontal lathe with the bowl automatically centred on a wooden chum\nThis 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.\nChum or chuck: Lathe attachment for holding pots during turning process.",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”), from Chinook.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chum (plural chums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of chum salmon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chum salmon",
          "chum salmon#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "chum salmon"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃʌm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌm"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-chum.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/En-us-chum.ogg/En-us-chum.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/En-us-chum.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chum"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 5,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "чум"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian чум (čum)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kpv",
        "3": "чум"
      },
      "expansion": "Komi-Zyrian чум (ćum)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "udm",
        "3": "чум",
        "t": "tent, shelter"
      },
      "expansion": "Udmurt чум (ćum, “tent, shelter”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Russian чум (čum), from Komi-Zyrian чум (ćum) and/or Udmurt чум (ćum, “tent, shelter”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chum (plural chums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "temporary",
          "temporary"
        ],
        [
          "dwelling",
          "dwelling"
        ],
        [
          "nomadic",
          "nomadic"
        ],
        [
          "Uralic",
          "Uralic"
        ],
        [
          "reindeer",
          "reindeer"
        ],
        [
          "herder",
          "herder"
        ],
        [
          "northwestern",
          "northwestern"
        ],
        [
          "Siberia",
          "Siberia"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃuːm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːm"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Oleg Trubachyov",
    "en:Chum (tent)"
  ],
  "word": "chum"
}

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