Round 3084: CHUMMAGE results
Tim B
higher position in the rolling scores, Tim's mixture of fish guts takes the prize of dealership, and
Chris, Alan and Efrem are joint runners-up and real winners. Detailed scores are attached.
The true definition was 10, “money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in a prison to the poorer,
for their share of a room.”, which no-one guessed; I think that's my first ever D0! My thanks to
"The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue", by Francis Grose.
1. fish offal.
Votes from Barrs, Keating, Lodge, E Mallach, Naylor
Submitted by Alan Mallach
2. a collective layoff.
Votes from Carson, Kornelis, Madnick, McGill
Submitted by Paul Keating
3. a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]
Votes from no-one
Submitted by Dan Widdis
4. a walkway in a tunnel.
Votes from no-one
Submitted by Shani Naylor
5. the dressed weight of hunted water fowl.
Votes from no-one
Submitted by Debbie Embler
6. the siblings of a salmon or trout hatch.
Votes from no-one
Submitted by Johnny Barrs
7. a collection of small articles for personal use.
Votes from Embler, Lodge, Madnich, A Mallach, McGill
Submitted by Chris Carson
8. the space under the bed where monsters hide at night.
Votes from Shefler, Widdis
Submitted by Hugo Kornelis
9. waste metal attached to a cast coin, esp. a counterfeit coin.
Votes from Carson, Embler, A Mallach, Shefler, Widdis
Submitted by Efrem Mallach
10. money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in a prison to the poorer, for their share of a room.
Votes from no-one
Submitted by Dictionary
11. finely pulverized white fish that has been shaped and cured to resemble the leg meat of snow crabs.
Votes from Kornelis
Submitted by Mike Shefler
12. the bones, fat, gristle, and other connective tissue remains left over after stewing or brothing
meats.
Votes from Tony Abell
Submitted by Ryan McGill
13. a mixture of fish guts thrown into the sea from a fishing boat as a lure for carniverous fish
such as sharks.
Votes from Abell, Barrs, Keating, E Mallach, Naylor
Submitted by Tim Lodge
No definition submitted:
Tony Abell voted for 12 and 13, score 0
Judy Madnick voted for 2 and 7, score 0
Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.
Shani Naylor
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Efrem G Mallach
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Johnb - co.uk
congrats on the D0
I was surprised that the more normal slang understanding for "chum" of 'friends' wasn't there among he defs - more normal for us Brits maybe = looking it up OED it means room-mates or flat-mates, people who share accommodation and it has been recently used that way by journalsist in lockdown. OED only knows that meaning for 'chummage' - but OED 'chum' also means chopped fish waste ( and may be thrown overboard to attract fish) and a process in ceramics and also a species of pacific salmon
Having now looked it up maybe my def was influenced by room-mates
and tins of salmon which latter I now remember as 'chums' from my
youth
amal...@comcast.net
Efrem’s right – It roughly means trash fish cut up and used for bait - It’s certainly pretty common along the Northeast US coast. I more or less assumed people knew it, which is why I was convinced it had to be something else (but that a ‘fishy’ def might get some takers).
Alan
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