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new chum

noun

Etymology

From new + chum.

Definitions

  1. A newly arrived convict.

  2. A beginner

    A beginner; a novice.

  3. A newly arrived and inexperienced immigrant

    A newly arrived and inexperienced immigrant; a newcomer.

    • Once, said he, a new chum came to the jarrah bush. A new chum is a tenderfoot, specifically an English tenderfot; he is, of course, the butt of every bush and mining camp in Australia.
    • 1990, John Lane, Fairbridge Kid, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 114, Being a new chum at Fairbridge meant that I had to go through a lengthy period of initiation all over again.

The neighborhood

  • antonymcurrency ladantonym(s) of “inexperienced new arrival”
  • antonymold handantonym(s) of “inexperienced new arrival”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for new chum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA