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chummy noun- a civilian; a prisoner; a prime suspect; also used as a patronising form of address UK, 1948
Metropolitan Police slang; a diminutive of CHUM - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 321, 1970
- loose and broken pieces of anything CANADA
A closely related word with a different but perhaps related meaning is used in New England and the Canadian maritime provinces fishing: “chum bait,” “chumming”. - When the pull-cord on the chainsaw stuck, she broke, and all that chummy come out of her. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 31, 1999
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