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Chummage. World English Historical Dictionary

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Chummage. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Chummage [f. CHUM + -AGE.]

1   1.  The system of ‘chumming’ one person upon another; the quartering of two or more persons in one room. Hence chummage-ticket.

2 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xlii. You’ll have a chummage ticket upon twenty-seven in the third, and them as is in the room will be your chums.

3 1859.  Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 103. The time-honoured system of ‘chummage,’ or quartering two or more collegians in one room, and allowing the richest to pay his companions a stipulated sum to go out and find quarters elsewhere.

4   2.  The fee demanded of a ‘new chum’ (prison slang), or that paid as described in prec. quot.

5 1777.  Howard, Prisons Eng., 16. A cruel custom obtains in most of our gaols, which is that of the prisoners demanding of a new comer, garnish, footing, or (as it is called in some of the London gaols) chummage.

6 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xlii. The regular chummage is two-and-sixpence.

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