different between chum vs consort

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, ultimately from Latin c?nsors.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?n'sôt, IPA^(key): /?k?ns??t/
  • (General American) enPR: kän'sôrt, IPA^(key): /?k?ns??t/
• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?nsôt', IPA^(key): /k?n?s??t/
  • (General American) enPR: k?nsôrt', IPA^(key): /k?n?s??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

consort (countable and uncountable, plural consorts)

1. The spouse of a monarch.

   • The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere.

2. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
   • 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers
   • 1838, Charles Darwin, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

     the snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort

3. (euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch; aristocrat; celebrity; etc.
4. A ship accompanying another.
5. (uncountable) Association or partnership.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; […] but, in consort with the rest, you see, has a meaning quite different.

6. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
   • 1633, George Herbert, Employment

     Lord, place me in thy consort.

7. (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegy upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney

     To make a sad consort, / Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs.

Synonyms

• (husband, wife, companion, partner): Thesaurus:spouse, companion, escort
• (association, partnership): association, partnership
• (group of musicians): band, group

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

consort (not comparable)

2. (postpositive) of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager

   Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took on nearly as many duties as queen dowager, after her husband's death, as she had had when she was queen consort during his reign.

Derived terms

• queen consort
• king consort
• prince consort

See also

• regnant
• queen regnant
• queen dowager

Verb

consort (third-person singular simple present consorts, present participle consorting, simple past and past participle consorted)

1. (intransitive) To associate or keep company (with).
   • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:

     If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 457,

     Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.

2. (intransitive) To be in agreement.

Synonyms

• (associate or keep company): hang out (slang)
• (be in agreement): agree, concur
• (associate or unite in company with): associate, hang out (slang)

Translations

Anagrams

• Croston, Scorton, cortons, crotons

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin consors.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon?s??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun?s?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

consort m or f (plural consorts)

1. partner, consort
2. (law) spouse

   Synonym: cònjuge

3. (law) accomplice

   Synonym: partícip

4. (law) joinder

   Synonym: litisconsort

Derived terms

• litisconsort

Related terms

• consorci

Further reading

• “consort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “consort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “consort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consors, consortem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s??/

Noun

consort f (plural consorts)

1. consort
2. (plural only, preceded by et, slightly derogatory) minions, associates; the likes

Further reading

• “consort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French consort, from Latin consors.

Noun

consort m (plural consor?i)

1. consort

Declension