Chug vs Chum - What's the difference?
chug | chum |
A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
A large gulp of drink.
A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
To make dull explosive sounds.
To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
(slang) to drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action; to chugalug.
(transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.
A friend; a pal.
(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]
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]
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, title= 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]
* 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]
(Scotland, informal) To accompany.
(fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
(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]
As nouns the difference between chug and chum
is that chug is a dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine or chug can be a dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua or chug can be (pejorative|racial slur) a person of native american descent while chum is cluster, bunch.As a verb chug
is to make dull explosive sounds or chug can be (transitive|uk slang|derogatory) to solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.chug
English
Etymology 1
OnomatopoeiaNoun
(en noun)- He drank his beer in three chugs .
Verb
- We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.
- I can't believe he chugged three beers.
Synonyms
* (drink) See alsoEtymology 2
blend of chihuahua and pugEtymology 3
blend of charity and mugVerb
- I got chugged in the town centre today.
Etymology 4
chum
English
Etymology 1
1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from (cham), shortening of (chambermate), or from comrade.Noun
(en noun)- I ran into an old chum from school the other day.
- 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 alsoVerb
(chumm)- 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.
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.}}
- "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...
- "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."
Etymology 2
Perhaps from (etyl).Noun
(-)Verb
(chumm)- Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.