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Where does the word “chum” meaning friend come from?

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Where does the word “chum” meaning friend come from?

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it comes from the old Irish song, though the actual word chum never appears in the song, it was created by an Irish American lawyer who according to friends quoted the song saying “hold it there chummy boy”