"I'll try to be 'chummy' -- perhaps I'm not yet too old to learn the secret of friendliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference
Me and this one girl, we was always kind of chummy up there. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Mattie Shoemaker and Mildred Shoemaker Edmonds, March 23, 1979. Interview H-0046. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He had an abhorrence for 'chummy' or other soubriquets currently being used. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
The socialists have a knack for presuming a "chummy", "we all think the same way" consensus. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Anyone who falls outside that "chummy" socialist family is a pariah and characterised as such. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Now it seems that this kind of chummy lock-in is happening elsewhere, at the UK's National Archives and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Great Microsoft Lock-in] Reference
We will now be allowed to call suspects "chummy" and "my lad" etc. From Wordnik.com. [POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Sometimes these wordy compliments made the opponents decidedly "chummy", to borrow a trench phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIX] Reference
"chummy" as ever, but this was cast aside when he buckled on his sword and took command. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island] Reference
At the end of that week Ada and I were quite chummy. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Now, boys, I've got to feeling pretty chummy with you. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
` But, chummy, you'll have to do different next time. '. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
“Pass the salt” would grow to sound warm and chummy. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
I'd rather see her chummy with you than Lola or Bess, either. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Street, showed me his credentials, and we became quite chummy. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
Relations between Uribe and Chavez never promised to be chummy. From Wordnik.com. [Distant Neighbors] Reference
"You two looked pretty chummy," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 2] Reference
I suppose he does well enough, but I wanted to be chummy with him. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
"I grew up in Brooklyn," he says in his chummy Coney Island accent. From Wordnik.com. [2006: A Space Oddity] Reference
"You ought to see how chummy they are, Joyce, out under our one maple.". From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
They gave parties and dances and everyone was chummy with everyone else. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
"Phil and Barbara are awfully chummy, so they'll be pleased to the skies.". From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Pittston team, with whom Joe had been quite chummy during the league season. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
"That's rather odd -- that Mary and Ida should get so chummy," murmured Cora. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
And he's a stranger over there, and doesn't need to get chummy with the girls. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
For a plain "John Smith" he seemed exceedingly chummy with the young nobleman. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
Camp Fire because she was no more chummy with Hazel than any of the other girls. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
Then they will be even more chummy when he can say "my father-in-law, Mr. Stein.". From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
"I know, but you see, Will and Allen being so chummy, and Allen being so fond of you ----". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky, two of Russia's richest men, have never been chummy. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Bedfellows] Reference
"Now that you know each other, you can postpone getting chummy until later," laughed Marjorie. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
During the unauthorised Christmas truce of eight months ago so chummy did a British officer and a. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
In the past, a chummy coalition of politicians and lobbyists has managed to fend off deregulation. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Bust Up The Club] Reference
In the following days, she saw her grandson getting chummy with the Secret Service agents on the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Afterlife of George W. Bush] Reference
In fact, those who saw them at the press tour events report that everyone seems pretty chummy in real life now. From Wordnik.com. [Whose house is THAT?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#2, Aug. 12)] Reference
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