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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
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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.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
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.
The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
 
 
 
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