Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Intimate; friendly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Companionable; sociable; intimate: as, I found him very chummy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloquial having the relationship of friends or pals.
- adjective informal associated on close terms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
friendly ; on, or trying to be on,intimate terms
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
- adjective (used informally) associated on close terms
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Examples
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Al-Arabiya TV and even Al-Jazeera folks have become so chummy this is the second time I use the word chummy in a month--and I never used it before, so please take note with Israeli guests that I expect Al-Arabiya anchorpersons to start asking their Israeli guests to sit on their laps.
Monday, June 30, 2008 As'ad 2008
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Al-Arabiya TV and even Al-Jazeera folks have become so chummy this is the second time I use the word chummy in a month--and I never used it before, so please take note with Israeli guests that I expect Al-Arabiya anchorpersons to start asking their Israeli guests to sit on their laps.
Friday, June 20, 2008 As'ad 2008
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(Equally, we might also suspect that the thug’s arresting officer dished out his own form of summary justice before chummy is bundled into the van - I know YOU have never heard of it, but it happens - but if there is no evidence of that …)
Hang On A Minute…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Maybe I just like to get all first name chummy with the half dozen brands of seed and chemical that hold the promise, for yet another go 'round, of shimmering green grass and trouble free maintenance that all the powers of the landscape industry bring to bear at this time of year.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2002
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She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run.
Anne of the Island 1908
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"I'll try to be 'chummy' -- perhaps I'm not yet too old to learn the secret of friendliness.
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The socialists have a knack for presuming a "chummy", "we all think the same way" consensus.
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Anyone who falls outside that "chummy" socialist family is a pariah and characterised as such.
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By the way, calling him "Rudy" is the kind of chummy familiarity that gave us "W" and made "Arnold" the governor of California.
Rudy's Strategy: Refighting The War With Liberals He Won In The 1990s 2009
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But thinking a bit further, I recognized that, from what I know, it simply isn't in you to give a "chummy" review to a friend.
This is why I don't have a blogroll. Or friends. Roger Sutton 2007
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