Chap vs Chum - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between chap and chum

is that chap is (dated|outside|uk|and|australia) a man, a fellow or chap can be a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin or chap can be (archaic) the jaw (often in plural) while chum is cluster, bunch.

As a verb chap

is of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

chap

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from in 16th century English.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap .’}}

(UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

* Steele

If you want to sell, here is your chap .

(Southern US) A child.

Usage notes

This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* chappie * chappo

Etymology 2

Related to chip .

Verb

(chapp)

Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

* Blackmore

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

* Lyly

Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.

(Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:

The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].

Derived terms

* chapped * chapstick

Noun

(en noun)

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

* T. Fuller

Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

Derived terms

* chappy

Etymology 3

From Northern English .

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) The jaw (often in plural).

*1610 , , by Shakespeare

This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!

* Cowley

His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.

* Shakespeare

He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Anagrams

chum

English

Etymology 1

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from (cham), shortening of (chambermate), or from comrade.

Noun

(en noun)

A friend; a pal.

I ran into an old chum from school the other day.

(dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.

* 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN01002996&id=N_dFtyzEqFsC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=chum&as_brr=1]

Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(chumm)

To share rooms with; to live together.

* 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00501560&id=qTQ1ql-_PGIC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=chummed&as_brr=1]

Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

To make friends with; to socialize.

* 1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=171546995&textreg=1&query=chummed&id=ConDark]

"I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised -- on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose. This was the foreman -- a boiler-maker by trade -- a good worker...

* 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=362005073&tag=Hornung,+Ernest+William:+The+Amateur+Cracksman,+1902&query=chummed&id=HorAmat]

"You'll make yourself disliked on board!"

"By von Heumann merely."

"But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?"

"The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge."

(Scotland, informal) To accompany.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from (etyl).

Noun

(-)

(fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks.

Verb

(chumm)

(fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.

* 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0936513233&id=9ZyJLLmrRYMC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=chummed+%2Bcut&sig=bXKQ_8aR776qpzT-2BOIjkfS1mI]

Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.

Anagrams

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