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Definition of 'chat'Etymology 1
Abbreviation of chatter . The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Verb
( chatt)
To be engaged in informal conversation.
- She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
- I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
To talk more than a few words.
- I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
To talk of; to discuss.
- They chatted politics for a while.
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
- Do you want to chat online later?
Noun
Informal conversation.
* {{quote-book|year=1963|author=(Margery Allingham)
|title=(The China Governess)
|chapter=Foreword citation
|passage=Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.}}
A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the subfamily Saxicolini that feed on insects.
Derived terms
* backchat
* chatroom
* chat up
* stonechat
* whinchat
Etymology 2
Compare chit'' "small piece of paper", and ''chad''.[William Safire, ''The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time ], p. 43, Simon and Schuster, 2007 ISBN 1416587403.
Noun
A small potato, such as is given to swine.
References
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.
Noun
( en-noun)
Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 441:
- Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.
Etymology 4
From .
Alternative forms
* chatt
Noun
( en-noun)
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* 1977 , Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down , page 520:
- 'Do officers have chats , then, the same as us?'
- 'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
* 2007 , How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? (ISBN 978-1-4357-1811-1), page 18:
- May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
* 2013 , Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (ISBN 1137303263), page 149:
- Trench foot'' was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which ''chats or body lice were the bane of all.
Etymology 5
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l)
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Similar to 'chat'cat, cut, coat, cot, cheat, chit, coot, chaat, cwt, cit, caut, coit, chout, chuet, chott, ckt, cutt
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