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Definition of Chummiest
1. chummy [adj] - See also: chummy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chummiest
Literary usage of Chummiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Democracy of the Constitution: And Other Addresses and Essays by Henry Cabot Lodge (1915)
"In it occurs this sentence: "The college girl is grammatical in speech, but she
has the jolliest, chummiest jargon ..."
2. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"It may have been a week later in the season that I was strolling down Broad Street
in company with "Tom" Baxter, Mr. Rhodes's chummiest crony. ..."
3. The Woman who Waits by Frances R. Donovan (1920)
"... Hayden Square was the chummiest place that I worked in and I really liked it
better than any other. The working conditions, however, were poor; ..."
4. More Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Norma Lorimer, William Adams, Hokusai Katsushika (1905)
"... where the Japanese are chummiest with Heaven. It is the East with a vengeance.
You go through a huge scarlet temple gateway to a huge scarlet temple, ..."
5. Tenting on the Plains: Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1999)
"She was the dearest, chummiest sort of house-dog, and when we took her out she
still visited with us perpetually, running to us every now and again to utter ..."
6. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1899)
"These two are alike in more than color—indeed, we might easily fancy them the
chummiest of companions, so closely together did they stand on the sandy, ..."
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