- 1很熟、稱兄道弟（有時是真心好，有時是好得讓人起疑）
If two people are chummy, they are friendly in a close, easy way — like old friends who slap each other on the back. It comes from chum, an informal word for a friend, plus -y. The feeling can be warm. It can also sound a little too close, or even a bit suspicious: Don’t get too chummy with him can mean ‘don’t act as if you are best friends until you know what he wants.’ It is informal, a little old-fashioned or in British English, and you would not put it in a serious letter. Americans understand it but use it less. As a noun, a chummy for ‘a friend’ is possible but much rarer; the usual meaning is the adjective.
組成chum (informal ‘friend’) + -y (having that quality).
同家族的字
- chumthe older informal word for a friend
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chummyadj/ˈt͡ʃʌ.mɪ/
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informalFriendly
- Yeah, I was just being nice! I was being nice and chummy!
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informalFriendly:
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informalFriendly:
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informalOn intimate terms
- 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!
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informalOn intimate terms:
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informalOn intimate terms:
chummynoun/ˈt͡ʃʌ.mɪ/
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Synonym of chum (“friend, pal”).
- 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.
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obsoleteA boy who works for a chimney sweep.
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slanggovernmentlaw-enforcementNickname for a person, especially a suspect or criminal.
- What happens when the Old Bill turns up and want to look at 'chummies^([sic]) dental records, guv, 'cos 'e's bitten a bloke's ear off in the pub'?
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datedA felt hat with a low crown.
- When Nipper was bowling he came in to the silliest of silly points, put his chummy hat well over his eyes, spat on his hands and generally annoyed the batsman so much that he lost his temper, […]
- Joy Banham recalled that in 1942, some three years into the war, when the privilege of wearing the tricorn hat was extended to petty officers: 'While I was at St David's the new tricorn hats for Petty Officers came on stream. As new girls were drafted to us they came wearing the new hats. Whereas we still had the old canvas “chummies” and we were quite envious.
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A person or thing with a name that one cannot immediately recall.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。