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Chummy   /tʃˈəmi/   Listen
adjective
chummy  adj.  
1.
Having the relationship of friends or pals. (colloquial)
Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy.
2.
Associated on close terms. (informal)
Synonyms: thick(predicate).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chummy" Quotes from Famous Books



... me for seemin' to smile. I can tell ye I was surprised to see a dacent-like chap like you sae chummy wi' sic a bad ...
— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell

... like that I'll kiss you, and Walter will call me out!" he said lightly. "Of course I'm not angry—we're as chummy as you'll let me be. Come on ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... friend to seek to subdue him by means of church forms, which he had severed on coming to Leipzig. By degrees he felt an epoch approaching when all respect for authority was to vanish, and he became suspicious and even despairing with regard to the best individuals he had known before and grew chummy with a young tutor whose jokes and fooleries were incessant. His disposition fluctuated between gaiety and melancholy, and Rousseau attracted him. Meanwhile his health declined until a long illness, which began with a hemorrhage, caused him to oscillate for days ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... evidently noticing and enjoying my confusion, "he was asking me what I thought of your credit. Shoddy and I are chummy you ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... the room). I'll make you acquainted. Eileen! (She comes over to them, embarrassed to find her father in his condition so chummy with a stranger. Murray rises to his feet.) This is Mr. Murray, Eileen. I want you to meet. He's Irish and he'll put you on to the ropes of the place. He's got the ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill


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