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▪ I. choom, n.1|tʃuːm|
[Russ. chum, f. native name.]
Among the nomadic peoples of Siberia, a conical hut or tent of fir poles covered with skins or birch bark.
[1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 284 Their tents are rounde and are called Chome in their language.] 1889V. Morier in Murray's Mag. Aug. 175 A little encampment of Samoyede summer ‘chooms’, i.e. birch-bark tents. 1895F. G. Jackson Gt. Frozen Land 82 Of the choom which forms the Samoyad's home there are two kinds, one for summer and another for winter.
▪ II. choom, n.2 Austral. and N.Z. slang.|tʃʊm, tʃuːm|
[var. of chum n.]
An English soldier; an Englishman.
1918Chron. N.Z.E.F. 10 May 153/1 Our chaps are rather fond of the ‘Aw choom’ dialect. 1919Downing Digger Dial. 16 Choom, an English soldier. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Mar. 25/1, I met a fresh-faced choom in charge of a spring-cart. 1933Ibid. 20 Dec. 20/1 Choom's eyes were saucers of awed interest. 1935Ibid. 24 Apr. 21/2 He wasn't a choom; he came straight from Brisbane and had been born and reared in Sydney. 1952J. Cleary Sundowners ii. 81 ‘Come on, Choom,’ he said to Venneker [an Englishman]. |