chum
/tʃʌm/ (bre, ipa) · /tʃʌm/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈchəm/ (ame, mw)
chum — noun
- chumsingular
- chumsplural
1. someone you spend time with and like very much, usually known since you were bot
someone you spend time with and like very much, usually known since you were both young
Brian and his school chums met up every Friday at the same pub in Liverpool.
collocation: school chums / old chums
Mayumi flew to Osaka for a reunion with her childhood chums from primary school.
collocation: childhood chum / chums from [place]
After thirty years apart, the two old chums hugged tightly at the airport gate.
Owen lent his fishing rod to a chum who was visiting from Wales for the weekend.
The three chums shared a small flat in Edinburgh during their first year at university.
文法句型
[person]'s chum
old chum
用法筆記
Common in British English and slightly dated; often paired with 'old' or 'school' to signal a long-standing friendship. Rarely used by younger speakers today, who prefer 'mate' or 'friend'.
常見錯誤
2. small pieces of fish, meat, or other animal parts that people drop into the sea
small pieces of fish, meat, or other animal parts that people drop into the sea from a boat so that bigger fish will come close
Mateo poured a bucket of chum into the water to draw sharks closer to the diving cage.
collocation: pour / dump chum into the water
The crew off the coast of Florida mixed fish heads and oil to make their own chum.
collocation: make / prepare chum
Mert noticed a trail of bloody chum drifting away from the stern of the boat.
Tour guides off Cape Town often use chum to bring great white sharks near the cage.
- bait
broader term — any food used to attract fish or animals
- groundbait
British, specifically used in coarse fishing from a bank
文法句型
throw chum
a bucket of chum
用法筆記
Uncountable, like 'bait' — you say 'some chum' or 'a bucket of chum', not 'a chum' in this sense. Most often appears in fishing and shark-tourism contexts.
常見錯誤
3. a large pink-fleshed salmon found across the northern Pacific Ocean and commonly
a large pink-fleshed salmon found across the northern Pacific Ocean and commonly caught for food
Joon's grandfather smoked chum every autumn in his small wooden shed near the river.
collocation: smoke chum / catch chum
Fishermen in Alaska land thousands of chum during the late summer run each year.
phrase: chum run (seasonal migration)
Eitan ordered grilled chum at the seafood restaurant overlooking the harbour in Seattle.
The factory in Vancouver tins chum and ships it to supermarkets across Canada.
- dog salmon
alternative common name, especially in Alaska and parts of Canada
- keta
name used on menus, from the scientific name Oncorhynchus keta
文法句型
chum salmon
用法筆記
Often appears as 'chum salmon' to disambiguate from sense 1 and sense 2; bare 'chum' for the fish is mostly used by people in the fishing industry along the North Pacific coast.
常見錯誤
chum — verb
- chumpresent simple I / you / we / they
- chums3rd person singular
- chumming-ing form
- chummedpast simple
1. to drop small pieces of fish or meat into the sea from a boat so that bigger fis
to drop small pieces of fish or meat into the sea from a boat so that bigger fish will come near you
Sana chummed the water steadily for an hour before the first shark appeared near the boat.
transitive: chum the water
Jabari and his father chummed for marlin off the coast of Mombasa every July.
intransitive: chum for [fish]
Otis was warned by the park ranger never to chum so close to the public swimming beach.
The crew chummed all morning, hoping a school of tuna would follow the trail to their lines.
- bait
broader — can describe putting food on a hook as well as scattering it
- groundbait
British, more often used in freshwater coarse fishing
文法句型
chum for [fish]
chum the water
用法筆記
Used almost only in the context of sea fishing; the object, when present, is usually 'the water' or the body of water itself, not the fish being attracted.