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▪ I. chummy, n.1 dial. and low colloq.|ˈtʃʌmɪ|
[f. chumley = chimney.]
a. A chimney-sweeper's boy.
1834in N. & Q. (1963) Apr. 137/1 (title) Sweep, sweep, sweep! or, the revolt of the chummies. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1866) 105 He 'ad been a chummy. 1844Thackeray Greenwich Wks. 1886, XXIII. 380 The hall..was decorated with banners and escutcheons of deceased chummies. 1859W. Gregory Egypt I. 154 His shrill voice high up aloft, like a chummy's on a London summer morn. 1890Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 5/4 The small ‘chummies’..assembled at the house of the Chimney-sweepers' Guild.
b. A chimney-sweeper of any age.
1860in Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2). 1954News Chron. 15 Mar. 6/4 A chummy is an ordinary sweep.
▪ II. chummy, n.2 colloq.|ˈtʃʌmɪ|
[f. chum + -y4 dim. suffix.]
1. = chum.
1849H. Melville Mardi I. iii. 22 For be it known that, in sea-parlance, we were chummies... Now this chummying among sailors is..a co-partnership..a bond of love and good feeling. 1864Gilbert Bab Ballads, Etiquette, Old chummies at the Charterhouse were Robinson and he.
2. Police slang. A prisoner; a person accused or detained.
1948Free-Lance Writer Apr. 54/1 Prisoners are often called ‘chummy’. 1965Daily Mail 27 Mar. 6/7 Borrowing from..police jargon, the Toms [sc. prostitutes] have taken to calling the murderer ‘Chummy’. The murder squad call all their clients ‘Chummy’. 1969D. Clark Nobody's Perfect iv. 124 We could get Chummy into the dock and pleading guilty, but we'd not get a verdict.
▪ III. chummy, a. colloq.|ˈtʃʌmɪ|
[f. chum + -y1.]
a. Intimate, sociable.
1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 536/2, I..saw them form into small chummy groups. 1888Illust. Lond. News Xmas No. 7/1 Be as chummy with him as you can.
b. chummy ship: see quot. 1962.
1898[see mucking vbl. n. 2]. 1915[see chuck-up]. 1962W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 32/1 Chummy ship, one with which another exchanges parties and games. Usually, but not necessarily, a ship's neighbour in harbour or at an anchorage.
So ˈchummily adv.
1934S. Lewis Work of Art xxvi. 357 He had known..waiters who believed that all Americans loved being chummily informed about the weather. 1940G. Greene Power & Glory ii. i. 109 He scratched himself under the armpits and came chummily up to the priest's stirrups. 1964A. Wykes Gambling iii. 79 Dominoes..are chummily called ‘stones’. |