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adjective

chummy adj.

Having the relationship of friends or pals. (colloquial)

Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy.

Associated on close terms. (informal)

Synonyms: thick(predicate).

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Etymology of 'Chummy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chummy" Quotes from Famous Books

... night feeling closer to him than he ever had before. He was going to be a college man like his father—perhaps a Nu Delta, too. He wished that they had got chummy before. When he went to bed, he lay awake dreaming, thinking sometimes of Helen Simpson and of how he had kissed her that afternoon, but more often of Sanford and Nu Delta. He was so deeply grateful to his father for talking to him frankly and telling him ...

— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks

... talked of Joey as the dearest friend they had; They were chummy with his uncles, or ac- quainted with his dad. Joe goes to France, and presently he figure as the best Two-handed all-in fighter in the armies of the West, And men of every age at home and high and low degree, We gather now, once went to school with ...

— 'Hello, Soldier!' - Khaki Verse • Edward Dyson

... for me, and it ain't so very long till spring," said Paul wistfully. "She's the best little woman a man ever had, and there ain't nothin' too good for her, chummy!" ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... was now going to Jerusalem, and his brother Pehr were children, they had once sat on that stone and talked. At first they were as chummy as could be; then all at once they got to quarrelling about something, became very much excited, and raised their voices. What they quarrelled about they had long since forgotten, but what they never ...

— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof

... them. "I ain't thinkin' they're relations," he returned, grinning up at Ferguson. "Leastways I never knowed a 'double cinch' an' a 'center fire' to git real chummy." ...

— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer

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