Definition of Chumship

1. friendship [n -S] - See also: friendship

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chumship

chumminesses
chumming
chummy
chump
chump-change
chump change
chump chop
chump chops
chumped
chumpier
chumpiest
chumping
chumps
chumpy
chums
chumship (current term)
chumships
chunam
chunder
chundered
chundering
chunders
chunga
chunk
chunked
chunker
chunkers
chunkier
chunkiest
chunkily

Literary usage of Chumship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"chumship. The state of occupying a room in company with another; chumming. In the seventeenth century, in Milton's time, for example, (about 1624,) and for ..."

2. Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner to Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould. Hotel by Benjamin Apthorp Gould, James Freeman Clarke, Francis Parkman, William Augustus Rogers, Erving Winslow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George S Hale (1885)
"On one occasion Mr. Gould came out to pour oil on the troubled waters, and he, with humorous seriousness, told us that chumship was like matrimony—it ..."

3. Book of Knowledge, Psychic Facts by Nellie Beighle (1903)
"But let us turn again to this family, where perfect chumship exists. The three older boys are now holding responsible positions, but the father and mother ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"Is " gentlemen " chumship no longer a boon ? Can zeal for the Union no longer determine, The Birmingham champion to back up the ermine ? ..."

5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"These lines of Du Maurier's describe him and our chumship much better than any words of mine can do. He says: тo BOBTAIL. In the sunshine of April, ..."

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