Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to chum around
Participle: chummed around
Gerund: chumming around
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | chum around |
| you | chum around |
| he;she;it | chums around |
| we | chum around |
| you | chum around |
| they | chum around |
Perfect
| I | have chummed around |
| you | have chummed around |
| he;she;it | has chummed around |
| we | have chummed around |
| you | have chummed around |
| they | have chummed around |
Past
| I | chummed around |
| you | chummed around |
| he;she;it | chummed around |
| we | chummed around |
| you | chummed around |
| they | chummed around |
Pluperfect
| I | had chummed around |
| you | had chummed around |
| he;she;it | had chummed around |
| we | had chummed around |
| you | had chummed around |
| they | had chummed around |
Future
| I | will chum around |
| you | will chum around |
| he;she;it | will chum around |
| we | will chum around |
| you | will chum around |
| they | will chum around |
Future Perfect
| I | will have chummed around |
| you | will have chummed around |
| he;she;it | will have chummed around |
| we | will have chummed around |
| you | will have chummed around |
| they | will have chummed around |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | chum around |
| you | chum around |
| he;she;it | chum around |
| we | chum around |
| you | chum around |
| they | chum around |
Perfect
| I | have chummed around |
| you | have chummed around |
| he;she;it | have chummed around |
| we | have chummed around |
| you | have chummed around |
| they | have chummed around |
Imperfect
| I | chummed around |
| you | chummed around |
| he;she;it | chummed around |
| we | chummed around |
| you | chummed around |
| they | chummed around |
Pluperfect
| I | had chummed around |
| you | had chummed around |
| he;she;it | had chummed around |
| we | had chummed around |
| you | had chummed around |
| they | had chummed around |
Conditional
Present
| I | would chum around |
| you | would chum around |
| he;she;it | would chum around |
| we | would chum around |
| you | would chum around |
| they | would chum around |
Perfect
| I | would have chummed around |
| you | would have chummed around |
| he;she;it | would have chummed around |
| we | would have chummed around |
| you | would have chummed around |
| they | would have chummed around |
Imperative
| you | chum around |
| we | Let's chum around |
| you | chum around |
Verbs conjugated like 'chum'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'chum'
cham,
chud,
chug,
chump,
chut,
hum,
alum,
bum,
calm,
cam,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).
Sample Sentences
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Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years. [1899, Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors:]
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A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:]
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"You'll make yourself disliked on board!"
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"By von Heumann merely."
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"But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?"
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"The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge." [1902, Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman:]
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I'll chum you down to the shops.