different between bait vs chum

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English bayte, bait, beite, from Old Norse beita (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic *bait? (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with German Beize (“mordant, corrosive fluid; marinade; hunting”), Old English b?t (“that which can be bitten, food, bait”). Related to bite.

Noun

bait (countable and uncountable, plural baits)

1. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
2. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
3. Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
4. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, chapter 20 page 70

     The tediousness of a two hours' bait at Petty-France, in which there was nothing to be done but to eat without being hungry, and loiter about without any thing to see, next followed[…]

   1. (Tyneside) A packed lunch.
   2. (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
   3. (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
   4. A light or hasty luncheon.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Verb

bait (third-person singular simple present baits, present participle baiting, simple past and past participle baited)

1. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
2. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.

   • a crooked pin […] baited with a vile earthworm

Translations

Usage notes

• This verb is sometimes confused in writing with the rare verb bate, which is pronounced identically; in particular, the expression with bated breath is frequently misspelled *with baited breath by writers unfamiliar with the verb bate.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bayten, baiten, beiten, from Old Norse beita (“to bait, cause to bite, feed, hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijan? (“to cause to bite, bridle”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to bait”), Swedish beta (“to bait, pasture, graze”), German beizen (“to cause to bite, bait”), Old English b?tan (“to bait, hunt, bridle, bit”).

Verb

bait (third-person singular simple present baits, present participle baiting, simple past and past participle baited)

1. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.

   to bait a bear with dogs;? to bait a bull

2. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
3. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 12,^[4]

     The Sunne that measures heauen all day long,

     At night doth baite his steedes the Ocean waues emong.

4. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
5. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, in Paradise Regain’d, to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, p. 89, line 539,^[5]

     For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

   • 1677, John Evelyn, Diary entry for 13 September, 1677, in Memoirs of John Evelyn, London: Henry Colburn, 1827, Volume 2, p. 433,^[6]

     My Lord’s coach convey’d me to Bury, and thence baiting at Newmarket, stepping in at Audley End to see that house againe, I slept at Bishops Strotford, and the next day home.

   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 62,^[7]

     At Break of Day we arose, and after a short Repast march’d on till Noon, when we baited among some shady Trees near a Pond of Water […]

See also

• Baiting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

French battre de l'aile or des ailes, to flap or flutter.

Verb

bait (third-person singular simple present baits, present participle baiting, simple past and past participle baited)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

Etymology 4

Etymology unknown.

Adjective

bait (comparative more bait, superlative most bait)

1. (MLE) Obvious; blatant.
2. (MLE) Well-known; famous; renowned.

Synonyms

• (obvious): See also Thesaurus:obvious
• (well-known): See also Thesaurus:famous

Anagrams

• IBAT, a bit, bati, tabi

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German w?t, from Old High German w?t, from Proto-Germanic *w?daz (“wide, broad”). Cognate with German weit, Dutch wijd, English wide, Icelandic víður.

Adjective

bait (comparative baitor, superlative dar baitorste) (Sette Comuni, Luserna)

1. wide, broad

2. distant, far

Declension

Synonyms

• (distant): bèrre

Derived terms

• baitekhot

References

• “bait” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bait, from Arabic ?????? (bayt), from Proto-Semitic *bayt-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ba.?t??]
• Hyphenation: ba?it

Noun

bait (plural bait-bait, first-person possessive baitku, second-person possessive baitmu, third-person possessive baitnya)

1. house (abode)
2. home (house or structure in which someone lives)
3. (literature) couplet (a pair of lines in poetry)

   Synonyms: untai, kuplet

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “bait” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /baet/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ba?t/
• Rhymes: -aet, -et

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (bayt), from Proto-Semitic *bayt-.

Noun

bait (Jawi spelling ????, plural bait-bait, informal 1st possessive baitku, impolite 2nd possessive baitmu, 3rd possessive baitnya)

1. house (abode)
2. home (house or structure in which someone lives)
3. (literature) couplet (a pair of lines in poetry)

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: bait

Etymology 2

From English byte.

Noun

bait (Jawi spelling ??????, plural bait-bait, informal 1st possessive baitku, impolite 2nd possessive baitmu, 3rd possessive baitnya)

1. byte

Further reading

• “bait” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Noun

bait

1. Alternative form of bayte

Welsh

Alternative forms

• baet

Verb

bait

1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod

Synonyms

• byddit
• byddet

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /t??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).

Noun

chum (plural chums)

1. (dated) A friend; a pal.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend

2. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
   • 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine [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.

Derived terms

• chummy

Descendants

• ? Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)
• ? Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)
• ? French: chum (Quebec)

Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
   • 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors [2]

     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.
2. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
   • 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [3]

     "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."

4. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan.

Noun

chum (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• chumsicle

Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
   • 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide [4]

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

Etymology 3

Noun

chum (plural chums)

1. (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
   • 1915, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 11, O'Gorman Publishing Company.

     ...self-supporting chum within the mould normally of corresponding and almost the same but lesser contour, whereby a space is provided between the chum and mould for the introduction of the powdered material and means for expanding the chum'.

   • 1920, The South African Journal of Industries, volume 3, part 2, p. 820

     He uses a round slab of clay, which he places on top of the chum and commences to thump down around the sides.

   • 1921, A Survey and Analysis of the Pottery Industry, bulletin no. 67, trade and industrial series no. 20, Washington: Federal Board for Vocational Training.

     Chum,—A mold used on the whirler to hold ware for scraping and finishing.

   • 1972, Neal French, Industrial Ceramics—Tableware, Oxford University Press

     Now that shapes were more uniform this was usually done on a horizontal lathe with the bowl automatically centred on a wooden chum

     This is a more useful method: it is used in making oval casseroles. The liner is made by spreading a bat and tehn forming it over a felt-covered chum, oval in shape.

     Chum or chuck: Lathe attachment for holding pots during turning process.

Anagrams

• much

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/

Noun

chum m (plural chums, feminine blonde or chum de fille)

1. (Canada, informal, Quebec) boyfriend (feminine counterpart: blonde)

2. (Canada, chiefly slang, Quebec) a friend, usually male; a chum (feminine form: chum de fille)

Synonyms

• (boyfriend): petit ami, ami de cœur, fiancé (dated), conjoint
• (friend): copain, ami

Derived terms

• chum de fille

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of cum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xu?m?/, /x?m?/

Verb

chum

1. past indicative analytic of cum
2. Lenited form of cum.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dochum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?n?/

Preposition

chum (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

1. Obsolete spelling of chun

Old Irish

Verb

·chum

1. Lenited form of ·cum.

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *quma?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma?, from Proto-Austronesian *quma?. Cognate with Cebuano umang, Tiruray kumang, Marshallese om?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?um/

Noun

chum

1. hermit crab

Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

chum

1. Alternative form of chun

Verb

chum

1. past indicative of cum

Mutation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t??um??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t??um??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c?m??]

Noun

(classifier cái) chum • (????)

1. a kind of vase used to contain water

See also

• lu