Brewer's: Chum

A crony, a familiar companion, properly a bedfellow; a corruption either of chamber-mate or comrade.

“To have a good chum is one of the pleasantest parts of a voyage.” —Nordhoff: Merchant Vessels, chap. xii. p. 164.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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