dumb chum
nounEtymology From dumb (“incapable of speech”) + chum (“friend, pal”). A rhyming alteration of earlier dumb friend.
1
Informal A pet (animal companion).
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.
noun
Etymology From dumb (“incapable of speech”) + chum (“friend, pal”). A rhyming alteration of earlier dumb friend.
Informal A pet (animal companion).
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.
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