chumship

(ˈtʃʌmʃɪp)

friendship

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This is the Tsar's service, and service isn't chumship. Stupid old Rykov!

Pan Tadeusz

Social cognition and behavior correlates of preadolescent chumship. Child Development, 53, 1478-1484.

Superficial self-harm: perceptions of young women who hurt themselves

In the saucy sort of phrase that will either delight or annoy, Leverenz declares that Ahab's "unvoiced plea says, 'Hit me again, Daddy'" (281); Ishmael's "homoerotic chumship ...