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new chum |
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new chum n 1. Austral and NZ archaic informal a recent British immigrant 2. Austral a novice in any activity 3. (Historical Terms) Austral (in the 19th century) a new arrival in a hulk How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But to the new chum who has no constitutional understanding of men and life in the rough, the Solomons may indeed prove terrible. I must trust to the sound sleeping of Ewbank upstairs, open the door myself, knock the visitor down, or shoot him with the revolver I had been new chum enough to buy before leaving Melbourne, and make a dash for that clump of trees and the doctor's mare. |
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