chummy
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Is chummy a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of chummy?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Friendly:Examples: "Yeah, I was just being nice! I was being nice and chummy!"informal
2. (informal) Friendly:Synonyms: affable, amiable, approachable, companionable, sociable, warmAntonyms: aloof, cool#Adjective, distant, formal, mannered, reserved, unfriendly, unsociableinformal
3. (informal) Friendly:Synonyms: familiar, fresh, ingratiating, smarmy, unctuousinformal
4. (informal) On intimate terms:Examples: "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."Synonyms: tightinformal
5. (informal) On intimate terms:Synonyms: tightinformal
6. (informal) On intimate terms:Synonyms: tightinformal
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A boy who works for a chimney sweep.obsolete
2. (law enforcement slang) Nickname for a person, especially a suspect or criminal.Examples: "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'?"slang
3. (dated) A felt hat with a low crown.Examples: "When Nipper was bowling he came in to the silliest of silly points, put his chummy hat well over his eyes, spat on his hands and generally annoyed the batsman so much that he lost his temper, […]"; "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."dated
4. (Newfoundland English) A person or thing with a name that one cannot immediately recall.Synonyms: Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jiggerEnglishNewfoundland
Definition source: Wiktionary