chummy
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5.2
- adjective
- /ˈtʃʌmi/
- Informal
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- What, you getting all chummy with Peter now?
- get chummy
- too chummy
- pretty chummy
First, it feels too chummy and borderline tacky.
- First, it feels too chummy and borderline tacky.
- You know, I, I all I can say he was, we weren't chummy because we felt a little bit awkward around each other unless we studied something.
Examples
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Since when are you all so chummy?
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Actually, I usually ate alone, but me and the pizza guy, we got pretty chummy.
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You sent those two off in a car, chummy chummy with one another.
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Getting pretty chummy with her, huh?
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Nothing new to report, except that he and I have become quite chummy.
Fiction book (1998) -
"You two are getting chummy," Rita said.
Fiction book (2001) -
We're getting a little chummy, aren't we?
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You got awfully chummy with my wife all of a sudden.
Fiction book (1994) -
You were so chummy with them, they'd confide in you, wouldn't they?
Fiction book (1997) -
I saw you getting all chummy with your new colleague at the office party.
Synonyms
773
1.0
Kind and helpful toward other people
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7.8
Being very friendly and close to someone
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8.0
Acting overly friendly in a way that seems fake or inappropriate
Friendly in a way that feels like you are close friends
Too friendly in a way that makes you seem like a close friend
Antonyms
How Friendly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chummy comes from chum, an old informal word for 'friend', plus the ending -y that makes a describing word. One idea says chum began as a short form of chamber mate—someone you shared a room with, so they felt like a close friend. So, chummy means 'friendly' or behaving like close friends.