chummier; chummiest
: quite friendly
Examples of chummy in a Sentence
She was getting chummy with the reporters.
the neighboring families know each other but are hardly chummy
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And The Rest Is Football(Netflix, YouTube) is the latest podcast to make the leap to the small screen, with former England internationals Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and the ever-chuckling Micah Richards serving up a daily helping of World Cup analysis alongside the usual chummy banter.
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Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 10 June 2026
But emails released earlier this year showed that Levine had a chummy past with both Epstein and Maxwell.
—Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
Pratt was in fact kinda chummy with Bass He calls Bass trash on social media — at least in Spanish.
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With that chummy dynamic established, the latest episode makes room for romance — or at least the illusion of it.
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Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 10 June 2026
But emails released earlier this year showed that Levine had a chummy past with both Epstein and Maxwell.
—Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
Pratt was in fact kinda chummy with Bass He calls Bass trash on social media — at least in Spanish.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
With that chummy dynamic established, the latest episode makes room for romance — or at least the illusion of it.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for chummy
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“Chummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chummy. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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