Lexicographical Neighbors of Chumping
Literary usage of Chumping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"The voices of early evening had settled down to one soothing hum whose deepest
note was the steady chumping of the bullocks above their chopped straw, ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"... the dowagers chumping away at plates of raised pie ; the young lassies nibbling
at little titbits, which the dexterous young gentlemen procure. ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"We all know that sort of transaction : the squabbling, and gobbling, and popping
of champagne ; the smell of musk and lobster salad ; the dowagers chumping ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"The voices of early evening had settled down to one soothing hum whose deepest
note was the steady chumping of the bullocks above their chopped straw, ..."
5. Syria: The Desert & the Sown by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1907)
"... mares stood peacefully by the tent pole and gazed with wise eyes upon their
masters within, and beyond them a camel lay chumping among the black stones. ..."
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