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"chug" - like noise, hence the name.

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  1. noun Archaic A sweetheart; a lover.
  2. noun Archaic A mistress.

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  • Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too. —  Flashman and the angel of the lord
  • He went north to his leman, and by the time they got to him there, there was no help for him. —  The Wicked Day
  • C.ifford C.leman, an ex-sheriff; Wendell Hicks, a farmer; Jim Moffett, Pusser's chief deputy; Bobby Killingsworth, a singer in Eddie Bond's band; C.nstable R.C. Matlock; Howell Ramsey, a cook; and Alton Smith, a retired deputy sheriff were all preparing to run. —  The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser
  • Mass 'Charles's papa was an ... exper'mental gen'leman, so he raised us the same. " —  Flashman and the angel of the lord
  • "chug" - like noise, hence the name. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1
 

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  1. Middle English leofman, lemman : leof, dear (from Old English lēof; see leubh- in Indo-European roots) + man, man; see man.

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  1. Also leaman; early modern English also lemman; from Middle English lemman, lemmon, limman, lefmon, leofmon, leveman (?), dear one, lover, sweetheart, literally, as separately and only in a general sense, in Anglo-Saxon, leóf mann or monn, ‘lief man,’ i. e. ‘dear person’: Anglo-Saxon leóf, dear; mann, monn, person (man or woman): see lief and man.
 

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