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Definition of chummy in English: chummyadjectivechummier, chummiest ˈtʃʌmiˈtʃəmi On friendly terms; friendly. she's become rather chummy with Ted recently Example sentencesExamples - Although I complied, I wasn't ready to be chummy with the officers.
- From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days.
- But behind the outwardly chummy relations between the two countries, it has been business as usual for Russian agents, who have continued to spy on their former Cold War foes.
- As chatty and chummy as one of his famous monologues, the book celebrates an unusually charmed life in a profession more noted for its high incidence of ego and angst, burnout and heartache.
- Once we get chummy and familiar, we sometimes cease to ask the right questions that would identify new concerns, new objectives, new opportunities.
Synonyms friendly, on good terms, close, familiar, affectionate, intimate informal as thick as thieves, thick, matey, pally, buddy-buddy, palsy-walsy, clubby
Derivativesadverb ‘Tom!’ I said chummily, all colour simultaneously draining from my face. Example sentencesExamples - As a conversationalist he's blunt and frank, even chummily so, yet not very interesting; and he holds no mysteries.
- So The Date Tapes create the illusion that a friend is chummily passing tips on to you.
- ‘You looked positively wonderful,’ Paige commented, linking her arm through his chummily.
- I was so impressed the way he just kept going, flicking a bit of water in the snake's face if it wandered a bit too chummily in his direction…
nounˈtʃʌmɪnəsˈtʃəminəs Curling might be the world's nicest sport, where courtesy and even chumminess between competitors is a founding principle, but the partisan crowd did their best to lower the tone yesterday. Example sentencesExamples - The narrator's apparent chumminess with such a startling (if unlikely) array of people derives in large part from the richness and energy of the speeches he reports.
- In the class there is none of the pedagogical chumminess, the cozy fireside attitude of modern times.
- There's a chumminess evident in the way he connects with his fellow managers, and also in his relationship with the customers.
- The chumminess of members referring to each other by their Christian names in debate is meant to signify democratic informality.
RhymesBrummie, crumby, crummy, dummy, gummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, slummy, tummy, yummy Definition of chummy in US English: chummyadjectiveˈCHəmēˈtʃəmi On friendly terms; friendly. she's become pretty chummy with Ted lately Example sentencesExamples - Once we get chummy and familiar, we sometimes cease to ask the right questions that would identify new concerns, new objectives, new opportunities.
- From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days.
- But behind the outwardly chummy relations between the two countries, it has been business as usual for Russian agents, who have continued to spy on their former Cold War foes.
- Although I complied, I wasn't ready to be chummy with the officers.
- As chatty and chummy as one of his famous monologues, the book celebrates an unusually charmed life in a profession more noted for its high incidence of ego and angst, burnout and heartache.
Synonyms friendly, on good terms, close, familiar, affectionate, intimate
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