“chummage”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

chummage

释义

chummage|ˈtʃʌmɪdʒ|
[f. chum + -age.]
1. The system of ‘chumming’ one person upon another; the quartering of two or more persons in one room. Hence chummage-ticket.
1837Dickens Pickw. xlii, You'll have a chummage ticket upon twenty-seven in the third, and them as is in the room will be your chums.1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 103 The time-honoured system of ‘chummage’, or quartering two or more collegians in one room, and allowing the richest to pay his companions a stipulated sum to go out and find quarters elsewhere.
2. The fee demanded of a ‘new chum’ (Prison slang), or that paid as described in prec. quot.
1777Howard Prisons Eng. 16 A cruel custom obtains in most of our gaols, which is that of the prisoners demanding of a new comer, garnish, footing, or (as it is called in some of the London gaols) chummage.1837Dickens Pickw. xlii, The regular chummage is two-and-sixpence.

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