chummy
/ˈt͡ʃʌ.mɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.40 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Yeah, I was just being nice! I was being nice and chummy!"
- "Lachey and Olson have become rather chummy the last couple of years—they slide each other free tickets, they visit each other at practice sessions and games, their wives hang out—and, well, Olson has been filling Lachey’s head with a lot of baseball talk."
- "From what Brandon tells me, Andrea is getting pretty chummy with her dorm advisor!"
- "She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened."
- "Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'"
- "Sonny's knotted, distrustful face relaxed all at once. "You're goddamned right about that, chummy!" he exclaimed."
Etymology
From chum + -y.
Usage
Inflected Forms
chummier (comparative)
more chummy (comparative)
chummiest (superlative)
most chummy (superlative)
chummies (plural)