/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Chum
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A crony, a familiar companion, properly a bedfellow; a corruption either of chamber-mate or comrade.
“To have a good chum is one of the pleasantest parts of a voyage.”—Nordhoff: Merchant Vessels. chap. xii. p. 164.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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