Chummy

/ˈt͡ʃʌ.mɪ/ · adjective

Meaning

(informal) Friendly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Friendly:
2. (informal) On intimate terms:
3. Synonym of chum (“friend, pal”).
4. (obsolete) A boy who works for a chimney sweep.
5. (law enforcement slang) Nickname for a person, especially a suspect or criminal.
6. (dated) A felt hat with a low crown.
7. (Newfoundland English) A person or thing with a name that one cannot immediately recall.

Example Sentences

Yeah, I was just being nice! I was being nice and chummy!

Lachey and Olson have become rather chummy the last couple of years—they slide each other free tickets, they visit each other at practice sessions and games, their wives hang out—and, well, Olson has been filling Lachey’s head with a lot of baseball talk.

From what Brandon tells me, Andrea is getting pretty chummy with her dorm advisor!

She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.

Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'

Sonny's knotted, distrustful face relaxed all at once. "You're goddamned right about that, chummy!" he exclaimed.

What happens when the Old Bill turns up and want to look at 'chummies^([sic]) dental records, guv, 'cos 'e's bitten a bloke's ear off in the pub'?

Joy Banham recalled that in 1942, some three years into the war, when the privilege of wearing the tricorn hat was extended to petty officers: 'While I was at St David's the new tricorn hats for Petty Officers came on stream. As new girls were drafted to us they came wearing the new hats. Whereas we still had the old canvas “chummies” and we were quite envious.

Synonyms for chummy

Antonyms for chummy

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Word Forms

• chummier
• more chummy
• chummiest
• most chummy
• chummies

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