英和和英

名詞

chummery (複数形 chummeries)

1. (India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
   • 1966, Paul Scott, "The Jewel in the Crown" in The Raj Quartet, 1966-1975.

     Close by, but only to be glimpsed through the gateway in a high stucco wall, similarly shaded, is the bungalow once known as the chummery where three of four of Mr White's unmarried sub-divisional officers - usually Indians of the uncovenanted provincial civil service - used to live when not on tour in their own allotted areas of the district.

2. (South Asia) The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
   • 1887, Rudyard Kipling, "In the Pride of His Youth" in Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888, [1]

     Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.

   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 5, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:

     His first six months in Burma he had spent in Rangoon, where he was supposed to be learning the office side of his business. He had lived in a "chummery" with four other youths who devoted their entire energies to debauchery.