dial. and low colloq. [f. chumley = CHIMNEY.] A chimney-sweeper’s boy.
1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz (1866), 105. He ’ad been a chummy.
1844. Thackeray, Greenwich, Wks. 1886, XXIII. 380. The hall was decorated with banners and escutcheons of deceased chummies.
1859. W. Gregory, Egypt, I. 154. His shrill voice high up aloft, like a chummy’s on a London summer morn.
