chatn.¹

Brit.

/tʃat/, U.S.

/tʃæt/

Forms: 1500s chatte, 1500s–1600s chatt, (1600s chate), 1500s– chat.

Etymology: < chat v.¹

†1. Chatter; idle or frivolous talk; prating, prattle, small talk. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

windc1290

trotevalea1300

follyc1300

jangle1340

jangleryc1374

tongue1382

fablec1384

clapa1420

babbling?c1430

clackc1440

pratinga1470

waste?a1475

clattera1500

trattle1513

babble?a1525

tattlea1529

tittle-tattlea1529

chatc1530

babblery1532

bibble-babble1532

slaverings1535

trittle-trattle1563

prate?1574

babblement1595

pribble-prabble1595

pribble1603

morologya1614

pibble-pabblea1616

sounda1616

spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

vaniloquence1623

vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

blateration1656

onology1670

whittie-whattiea1687

stultiloquence1721

claver1722

blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

tattlement1837

slabber1840

gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

c1530 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 835/2 Yet shall shee finde chatte ynough for all an whole yere.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 271 A Chough of as deepe chat .

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 994 They will prate Till they tire all men with their idle chatt.

1660 J. Milton Brief Notes Serm. 7 The rest of his preachment is meer groundless Chat.

1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra xii. 92 No more to be regarded, than the little chat of Ideots and Children.

1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 17 Scarce list'ning to their idle Chat.

1769 E. Burke Let. 18 July in Corr. (1960) II. 5 I have plagued you a good deal with political Chat.

2. Familiar and easy talk or conversation. †to hold one chat, with chat, in chat: to keep one engaged in talk (obsolete).

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)]

yedc888

speak971

rounda1200

talka1225

tevela1225

intercommunec1374

fable1382

parlec1400

reason?c1425

communique?1473

devise1477

cutc1525

wade1527

enterparle1536

discourse1550

to hold one chat, with chat, in chat1573

parley1576

purpose1590

dialogue1595

commerce1596

dialoguize1596

communicate1598

propose1600

dialogize1601

converse1615

tella1616

interlocute1621

interparle1791

conversate1811

colloquize1823

conversationize1826

colloque1850

visit1862

colloquy1868

to make conversation1921

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat

confabulationc1450

device1490

chat1573

tittle-tattle?c1640

small talk1650

confab1701

chit-chat1710

jaw1748

small-talking1786

prose1787

rap1787

coze1804

talky-talky1812

clack1813

chit-chatting1823

cozey1837

gossip1849

mardlea1852

yarn1857

conflab1873

chinwag1879

chopsing1879

cooze1880

chatting1884

schmoozing1884

talky-talk1884

pitch1888

schmooze1895

coosy1903

wongi1929

yap1930

kibitz1931

natter1943

old talk1956

jaw-jaw1958

yacking1959

ole talk1964

rapping1967

1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 134 Insteade of drye studdy fall to gentle chatt.

1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris ii. i. sig. Biij Shee was a helpe to Ioue, And held me chat, while he might court his loue.

1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. D3 Thus he held her a long while with chat.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 162 Oh how I long to haue some chat with her.

1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 28 Ile keep the old mad man in chat, whilest thou gabblest to the girle.

1655 Theophania 171 Wits, who..can hold up a chat.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 92. ⁋4 The Chat I had to Day at White's about Fame and Scandal.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 322 Holding them in a Chat 'till they came to the Ship's Side.

1798 R. Southey Ballad of Cross Roads 7 It would..only spoil our chat.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 22 Two old gossips..in familiar chat with the landlady.

1836 L. Hunt Bodryddan 81 in Poems (1860) 298 In magic talk, which men call ‘chat’.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 131 A chat about old times.

3. colloquial. The thing under discussion, the question.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > materials of topic > [noun] > of debate or discussion

proposec1350

purposec1350

propositiona1382

problema1387

conclusionc1400

state of the causea1525

question1549

argumenta1568

thesis1579

disquisition1605

problem1645

consultation1663

consult1683

propos1816

issue1836

chat1861

debating point1927

battleground1931

1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. vi. 42 Has the gentleman any right to be in this room at all, or has he not? Is he commercial, or is he—miscellaneous? That's the chat, as I take it.

4. dialect. Impertinent talk, impudence.

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1889 N.E.D. at Chat Mod. Sc. ‘Give us none of your chat’.

Compounds

chat show n. = talk show n. at talk n. Compounds.

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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [adjective] > types of programme or item

play-by-play1908

re-run1909

ball-by-ball1914

simultaneous1923

scriptless1930

scripted1941

soap opera1942

write-in1953

soap-operatic1963

open line1966

chat show1969

talk-back1972

made-for-TV1973

soap-operatical1975

drama-doc1977

omnibus1987

1969 TV Times 16 Oct. 4/4 Like a lot of women—and men I guess—in New York I thought I'd reached chat-show saturation point, but Frost made me think again.

1972 Times 23 Sept. 10/1 The apotheosis of the chat show arrives tonight when Muggeridge guests for Parkinson.

1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women ii. 89 If he ever got tired of editing he could have walked into a job as a chat-show host on any of the TV channels.

Draft additions 1993

chat line n. [line n.² 1e] a telephone or electronic messaging service which enables subscribers to exchange casual conversation, either individually or by means of a conference line, with other subscribers or with employees of the service.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone services

answering service1904

information1910

speaking clock1934

talking clock1936

TIM1936

telebus1942

wake-up service1946

subscriber trunk dialling1952

freephone1959

telephone hotline1961

WATS1962

call waiting1963

night line1970

phone-in1970

telephone helpline1970

help-line1980

line1983

Cellnet1984

chat line1984

Vodafone1984

telepoint1987

callback1992

1984 InfoWorld 26 Mar. 103/3 CompuServe once seemed mainly to target the home user with its on-line games and chat lines, but now offers many of the same business services available on The Source.

1987 Advertising Age 14 Sept. 92/2 Minitel didn't really boom until the 1981 introduction of chat lines that allow Minitel users to converse with one another directly.

1991 Independent on Sunday 24 Mar. 25/7 Yesterday there were 20 [advertisements] promoting pornographic ‘chat lines’ in which one is, for instance, invited to ‘talk dirty’.

1992 Economist 11 Apr. 25/4 Oftel, the telecommunications watchdog, pulled the plug on telephone chatlines. The chatline operators had failed to come up with £600,000 ($1m) demanded by Oftel, to compensate desperate parents whose offspring ran up gigantic bills.

Draft additions June 2001

Computing and Telecommunications. A facility for the online exchange of messages in real time by two or more simultaneous users of a computer network (esp. the internet) whereby text keyed by one participant appears immediately on the monitors of all. Also: (an instance of) this form of online communication. Frequently attributive. Earliest in chat line n. at Additions; see also chat room n. at Additions.

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1985 Today's Computers Mar. 26/3 Chat, a mode [of computers connected as a Local Area Network] in which two or more users may type messages on each other's terminals, enabling back-and-forth conversations through the network without waiting for electronic mail to be sent and received.

1992 Portable Computing 1 i. 53/1 The newest packages..also have a chat feature so users can exchange remarks online.

1994 CompuServe Mag. Mar. 16/1 ‘Adult-oriented’ games and CD-ROMs; steamy online ‘chats’; people discussing their sex lives and wanton desires with strangers in online forums.

1996 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 87/1 Since I splashed out on a computer and discovered the ‘chat forums’, I haven't even glanced at my TV.

Draft additions June 2001

chat room n. Computing and Telecommunications an online messaging facility (esp. an internet site) dedicated to real-time exchanges, usually on a particular topic; a notional space occupied by two or more participants in an online chat service.

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1989 T.H.E. Jrnl. (Nexis) Feb. 68 BBS ‘chat rooms’, which allow up to 23 people to converse in real time, will be regularly used.

1996 N.Y. Daily News (Electronic ed.) 29 Dec. He knew the pair became acquainted in the chat room, an independent site on the World Wide Web devoted to a vampire fantasy role-playing game.

2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 10 Feb. Whenever you enter a live chat room for the first time..it's hard not to be momentarily transfixed by the torrent of text messages rushing down your screen.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

chatn.²

Brit.

/tʃat/, U.S.

/tʃæt/

Etymology: < chat v.¹, in reference to the character of their voice.

a. A name applied to several birds, chiefly Sylviadæ or Warblers: viz. to the species of Saxicola, the Furze-chat or Whin-chat, Stone-chat, and Wheat-ear; also to the Hay-chat or Nettle-creeper, and Sedge Warbler.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola

chat1704

nun1918

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > species schoenobaenus (sedge warbler)

reed-sparrow1676

chat1704

sedge-bird1738

willow-lark1769

sedge-warbler1776

reed-bird1782

sedge-wren1802

night singer1816

sedge reedling1837

mockingbird1883

fisherman's nightingale1884

sally picker1885

1704 Nat. Hist. ii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 185 The Chatt. Has a black Tail with white tips.

1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 106 The Chats come to us in April and breed, and about Autumn return to Africk.

1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 405 Chats, larks, and grey wagtails.

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxviii. 543 The Whitethroat..sometimes called the Hay chat and Nettle-creeper.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 50 The chats, who perch on the furze or on the heaps of flints.

b. In North America, to other birds, e.g. the Yellow-breasted Chat ( Icteria polyglotta) and Long-tailed Chat ( I. longicauda).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of

redstart1731

chat1796

rosy finch1801

redstart warbler1815

orangequit1847

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 209 Yellow Breasted Chat, Garrulus Australis.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

chatn.³

Brit.

/tʃat/, U.S.

/tʃæt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s chatte.

Etymology: < French chats barren flowers of walnut, hazel, willows, etc., lit. ‘cats’, from their downy appearance; compare the equivalent French chatons kittens, Dutch katteken , English catkin n. Sense 2 (if related) is perhaps a loose popular extension of the word.

Obsolete or dialect.

1. A name given to the catkin, inflorescence, or seed of various plants:

a. The downy catkin of the willow, pine, oak, hazel, etc. Obsolete or dialect.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > of particular type, shape, or arrangement > catkin(s) or unisexual in florescence

chatc1400

tappette1561

catkin1578

chaton1578

kitekin1578

taglet1578

tag1597

cat's tail1611

nucament1633

tassel1646

catling1665

iulus1668

amentum1720

jul1725

ament1783

pussycat1850

lamb's tails1882

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xv. 168 The long Peper..is lyche the Chattes of Haselle, that comethe before the Lef, and it hangeth lowe.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 460 The Oke called Robur, bringeth forth likewise a certaine pendant chat or catkin.

1875 Lanc. Gloss. Chats, the catkins of trees.

†b. The spikes or spikelets of grasses, carices, and the like. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > part of

bladec1450

grass root1474

bent1577

chat1601

grasstop1659

knee1678

locusta1707

straw1776

spikelet1793

strap1793

sheath-scale1796

spiket1796

stragule1821

scutellum1832

scobina1839

rachilla1842

chaff-scale1856

coleorhiza1866

hypoblast1882

lemma1906

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. vii Panick..is found with a tuft or bunch, from which depend certain small clustered chats or panicles.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 3 It commeth from a certaine fennie reed growing in marishes, I meane the tender muchets or chats thereof.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 557 Certaine chats or catkins which grow vpon many reeds and canes.

†c. The ‘key’ or samaroid seed of the ash, sycamore, and other trees. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun] > seed pod

ash-key1440

chat1562

kite-key1578

cat-keys1694

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 30, in Bulwarke of Defence And the coddes did grow upon clusters, like the chattes or kaies of Ashe trees.

1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden vi. 14 Ashes, Rountrees, Burt trees, and such like, caried in the chat, or bery, by the byrds into stone walles.

1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 14 Chats, Keys of Trees, as Ashchats, Sycomore Chats, etc.

d. The scaly cone (strobilus) of alder, pine, etc.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone

pine nuteOE

nutOE

pineapplea1398

cone1562

cone-nut1562

pineapple nut1568

clog1577

chat1697

fir-apple1712

pine cone1723

strobilus1753

strobile1777

fir-bob1854

fir-ball1878

dennebol1909

1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 374 I observed about Mid-August, the Chats of the Alder to be Gummy.

1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Chats, the cones of the fir-tree.

2. A small branch or twig, such as is used for kindling a fire. Also chat-wood n. dialect.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling

hostry faggot1594

chat1670

fire faggota1722

hostry-wood1738

kindling wood1783

kindler1791

fire kindling1849

crack1851

split1858

1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §4. 128 Their boles and boughes, their buds and chats, their leaves and flowers, sprouting upwards.]

1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 42 Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.

1670 E. Tonge in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1165 And in what forwardness their Buds and Leaves, or Chats were then shot, or broken.]

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Chat-wood, little sticks fit for fuel.

1794 in Ann. Reg. 361 Even the spray-wood, here called chats..might be made into fagots.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Chats, small branches or twigs used for firing. ‘Dick, run an' fatch tuthree dry chats to put i' the oven’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

chatn.⁴

dialect.

A small poor potato.

ΚΠ

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 181 Buy inferior meat, chats, and rye-bread.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 179 Potatoes, small and waxy, such as we should call chats in England.

1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chat (Mid. and E. Lanc.), a small potato.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Chats, small and diseased potatoes, unfit for market.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

chatn.⁵

Mining.

Ore with a portion of the matrix adhering to it, forming the second portion or stratum of a mass of ore in the process of washing.

ΚΠ

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Chat, ore and stone together, Nidd.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 117 Chats, Northumb., Small pieces of stone with ore.

Compounds

Categories »

chat-mill n. = chat-roller n.

chat-roller n. a special mill or roller through which the ‘chats’ have to go, the product being known as chat-ore or ‘seconds’.

ΚΠ

1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 140/1 Crushing machine, Chat-roller, (a machine consisting of two cast-iron rollers, used in squeezing or crushing the roasted iron ores).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† chatn.⁶

Etymology: Aphetic < achat.

Obsolete.

= cate n.¹

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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]

meateOE

eatOE

foodOE

fodderOE

dietc1230

gista1290

victual1303

victualsa1375

preya1382

feedinga1398

pasturea1398

viancea1400

viandsc1400

livingc1405

meatingc1425

vitalyc1440

vianda1450

cates1461

vivers1536

viandry1542

viander1543

gut-matter1549

peck1567

belly-cheer1579

appast1580

manchet1583

chat1584

belly-metal1590

repasture1598

cibaries1599

belly-timber1607

belly-cheat1608

peckage1610

victuallage1622

keeping1644

vivresa1650

crib1652

prog1655

grub1659

beef1661

fooding1663

teething1673

eatablea1687

sunket1686

yam1788

chow-chow1795

keep1801

feed1818

grubbing1819

patter1824

ninyam1826

nyam1828

grubbery1831

tack1834

kai1845

mungaree1846

scoff1846

foodstuff1847

chuck1850

muckamuck1852

tuck1857

tucker1858

hash1865

nosh1873

jock1879

cake flour1881

chow1886

nosebag1888

stodge1890

food aid1900

tackle1900

munga1907

scarf1932

grubber1959

the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > bought food

cates1461

chat1584

1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 43 The greatest part of theyr provision consisting in choise chats and junkettinge dishes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

chatn.⁷

Thieves' Cant.

A louse.

ΚΠ

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Chatts, lice.

1725 in New Canting Dict.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 162 Chats, lice.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

chatv.¹

Brit.

/tʃat/, U.S.

/tʃæt/

Forms: Middle English–1500s chatt(e, 1500s chate, Middle English– chat.

Etymology: apparently an onomatopoeic abbreviation of chatter v., which has lost the frequentative, and to some extent the depreciative, force of that word.

†1. intransitive. To talk idly and foolishly; to prate, babble, chatter. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]

chattera1250

drivelc1390

clatter1401

chatc1440

smattera1450

pratec1460

blaver1461

babble?1504

blether1524

boblec1530

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

fable1579

tinkle1638

whiffle1706

slaver1730

doitera1790

jaunder1808

haver1816

maunder1816

blather1825

yatter1825

blat1846

bibble-babble1888

flap-doodle1893

twiddle1893

spiel1894

rot1896

blither1903

to run off at the mouth1908

drool1923

twiddle-twaddle1925

crap1940

natter1942

yack1950

yacker1961

yacket1969

c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 3 I charge ȝou as ȝour chiftan þat ȝe chatt for no chaunce.

1483 Cath. Angl. 60 To Chatte, garrulare.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. Prol. f. i^v Thoughe I shulde all day tell Or chat with my ryme dogerell.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ei What nede you with hym thus prate and chat.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 370 To chat like a pie, or like a bird in a cage.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Babillarde, a title-tatle..a chatting or chattering Minx.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 121.

1617 Janua Linguarum 18 Admit not thy wife to thy secrets; for she will vndoe you both by chatting.

2. transitive. To chatter, prate, or prattle (a thing); to utter familiarly; to talk in a gossiping way.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)]

cacklec1230

chattera1250

clapc1315

jangle1377

blabberc1380

trattlea1425

pratea1475

chat1483

prattlea1500

prittle-prattlea1555

gabble1566

blatter?1567

gaggle1577

clacket1579

knap1581

prittle1583

clack1590

volley1591

tattle1593

prabble1603

out-babble1649

garrulate1656

gabber?1661

chime1697

spiel1904

chitter-chatter1928

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter

chavel?c1225

babblea1250

chattera1250

clacka1250

janglea1300

ganglec1300

clapc1315

mumblec1350

blabberc1375

carp1377

tatterc1380

garre1382

rattlec1400

clatter1401

chimec1405

gabc1405

pattera1450

smattera1450

languetc1450

pratec1460

chat1483

jabber1499

clittera1529

cackle1530

prattle1532

blatter1533

blab1535

to run on pattens1546

tattle1547

prittle-prattlea1555

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

quiddlea1566

brabble1570

clicket1570

twattle1573

gabble1574

prittle1583

to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597

to word it1612

deblaterate1623

tongue1624

twitter1630

snatter1647

oversay1656

whiffle1706

to gallop away1711

splutter1728

gob1770

gibble-gabble1775

palaver1781

to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785

gammon1789

witter1808

yabble1808

yaff1808

mag1810

chelp1820

tongue-pad1825

yatter1825

potter1826

chipper1829

jaw-jaw1831

buzz1832

to shoot off one's mouth1864

yawp1872

blate1878

chin1884

yap1888

spiel1894

to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895

to run off at the mouth1908

chattermag1909

clatfart1913

to talk a streak1915

to run one's mouth1916

natter1942

ear-bash1944

rabbit1950

yack1950

yacker1961

to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965

yacket1969

to twat on1996

1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. qvv While she lyueth she may chatt [L. obganniat] it at hys eere.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 4/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I A woman..possesst with a babbling spirite, that coulde haue chatted any language sauing the Irishe.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 To what purpose do I chat such ianglerye trim trams?

1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum 37 Bent to learn this Language, for fear..they should not chat it handsomely when they came to heaven.

a1745 J. Swift Let. to Archbishop Dublin in Wks. (1765) VIII. i. 183 To chat their scandal over an infusion of sage.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xliii. 257 The other men stood chatting politics and the latest news.

3. intransitive. To talk in a light and informal manner; to converse familiarly and pleasantly.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat

dallyc1300

confablec1450

crack1529

tattle1547

chat1551

confabulate1604

confab1741

prosea1764

parleyvoo1765

coze1818

yarn1819

cosher1833

to pass a good morning1835

small-talk1848

mardle1853

cooze1870

chinwag1879

rap1909

kibitz1923

to shoot the breeze1941

old-talk1956

ole-talk1971

gyaff1976

gist1992

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. to P. Gyles sig. ✠vii^v I muste commen with my wife, chatte with my chyldren, and talke wyth my seruantes.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 51 Matter for them and others to chat of.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 27.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn viii, in Poems 5 The Shepherds on the Lawn..Sate simply chatting in a rustick row.

1740 R. West Let. 5 June in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 165 They can chat about trifles.

a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan xxiii, in Wks. (1954) VI. 284 After chatting on indifferent subjects.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 245 Lord and Lady Burworth, and the Squire, were chatting by the fire.

†4. transitive. To speak familiarly of, talk of, tell as gossip. Obsolete.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)] > spread (a rumour) or tell (as a gossip)

rumour1548

chata1593

buzz1616

start1645

a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 406 She began to chat the same amongst her gossips.

1596 W. Smith Chloris (1877) 11 When to my flocke my daily woes I chate.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 205 Your pratling Nurse Into a rapture lets her Baby crie, While she chats him [sc. Coriolanus] .

5. To address, talk to (a person); to advise; to approach or address tentatively; to flirt with. Also with up. colloquial.

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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt with [verb (transitive)]

gallant1672

coquet1725

chat1898

trick1913

vamp1918

to make time with1934

to come on1948

chirpse1997

the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > speak to or address [verb (transitive)]

speakc950

beclepec1220

enreason1297

saluec1300

calla1325

clepe1362

to speak on ——?1370

salutec1380

to call upon ——c1405

escry1483

assaya1522

treatc1540

accost1567

encounter1578

bespeaka1593

affront1598

parley1611

address1683

chin-chin1817

chat1898

1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. Chat, to flirt with. Londonderry.

1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands x. 132 I want ter chat yeh.

1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 19 I tried to chat 'er, like you'd make a start Wiv any tart.

c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 69 He drinks with a bloke and chats him.

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 50 She had earned it too the way he had chatted her.

1959 Streetwalker i. 10 Big Barbara is chatting a geezer, though the stream of polished professional patter she is directing at him warrants a less terse description.

1963 Daily Mail 22 Jan. 6/3 If you try to chat up a girl and she gives you the heavy fish it means she's ignored your advances.

1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water vii. 34 I was chatting her up the other day.

1963 Sunday Express 10 Mar. 22/7 He saw a pretty girl..smiling at him. He smiled right back. ‘I like chatting the birds,’ he said.

1966 K. Amis Anti-death League 330 I must have spent a bit of time chatting them up.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† chatv.²

Obsolete. Scottish.

Generally referred to chate n., and explained as ‘Hang’: but this is quite uncertain.

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a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 126 Quod I: ‘Churle, ga chat the, and chyde with ane other’.

1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 He chereist hir scho bad ga chat him.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

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单词	chat
释义	chatn.¹ Brit. /tʃat/, U.S. /tʃæt/ Forms: 1500s chatte, 1500s–1600s chatt, (1600s chate), 1500s– chat. Etymology: < chat v.¹ †1. Chatter; idle or frivolous talk; prating, prattle, small talk. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 c1530 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 835/2 Yet shall shee finde chatte ynough for all an whole yere. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 271 A Chough of as deepe chat . View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 994 They will prate Till they tire all men with their idle chatt. 1660 J. Milton Brief Notes Serm. 7 The rest of his preachment is meer groundless Chat. 1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra xii. 92 No more to be regarded, than the little chat of Ideots and Children. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 17 Scarce list'ning to their idle Chat. 1769 E. Burke Let. 18 July in Corr. (1960) II. 5 I have plagued you a good deal with political Chat. 2. Familiar and easy talk or conversation. †to hold one chat, with chat, in chat: to keep one engaged in talk (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] yedc888 speak971 rounda1200 talka1225 tevela1225 intercommunec1374 fable1382 parlec1400 reason?c1425 communique?1473 devise1477 cutc1525 wade1527 enterparle1536 discourse1550 to hold one chat, with chat, in chat1573 parley1576 purpose1590 dialogue1595 commerce1596 dialoguize1596 communicate1598 propose1600 dialogize1601 converse1615 tella1616 interlocute1621 interparle1791 conversate1811 colloquize1823 conversationize1826 colloque1850 visit1862 colloquy1868 to make conversation1921 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat confabulationc1450 device1490 chat1573 tittle-tattle?c1640 small talk1650 confab1701 chit-chat1710 jaw1748 small-talking1786 prose1787 rap1787 coze1804 talky-talky1812 clack1813 chit-chatting1823 cozey1837 gossip1849 mardlea1852 yarn1857 conflab1873 chinwag1879 chopsing1879 cooze1880 chatting1884 schmoozing1884 talky-talk1884 pitch1888 schmooze1895 coosy1903 wongi1929 yap1930 kibitz1931 natter1943 old talk1956 jaw-jaw1958 yacking1959 ole talk1964 rapping1967 1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 134 Insteade of drye studdy fall to gentle chatt. 1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris ii. i. sig. Biij Shee was a helpe to Ioue, And held me chat, while he might court his loue. 1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. D3 Thus he held her a long while with chat. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 162 Oh how I long to haue some chat with her. View more context for this quotation 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 28 Ile keep the old mad man in chat, whilest thou gabblest to the girle. 1655 Theophania 171 Wits, who..can hold up a chat. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 92. ⁋4 The Chat I had to Day at White's about Fame and Scandal. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 322 Holding them in a Chat 'till they came to the Ship's Side. 1798 R. Southey Ballad of Cross Roads 7 It would..only spoil our chat. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 22 Two old gossips..in familiar chat with the landlady. 1836 L. Hunt Bodryddan 81 in Poems (1860) 298 In magic talk, which men call ‘chat’. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 131 A chat about old times. 3. colloquial. The thing under discussion, the question. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > materials of topic > [noun] > of debate or discussion proposec1350 purposec1350 propositiona1382 problema1387 conclusionc1400 state of the causea1525 question1549 argumenta1568 thesis1579 disquisition1605 problem1645 consultation1663 consult1683 propos1816 issue1836 chat1861 debating point1927 battleground1931 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. vi. 42 Has the gentleman any right to be in this room at all, or has he not? Is he commercial, or is he—miscellaneous? That's the chat, as I take it. 4. dialect. Impertinent talk, impudence. ΚΠ 1889 N.E.D. at Chat Mod. Sc. ‘Give us none of your chat’. Compounds chat show n. = talk show n. at talk n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [adjective] > types of programme or item play-by-play1908 re-run1909 ball-by-ball1914 simultaneous1923 scriptless1930 scripted1941 soap opera1942 write-in1953 soap-operatic1963 open line1966 chat show1969 talk-back1972 made-for-TV1973 soap-operatical1975 drama-doc1977 omnibus1987 1969 TV Times 16 Oct. 4/4 Like a lot of women—and men I guess—in New York I thought I'd reached chat-show saturation point, but Frost made me think again. 1972 Times 23 Sept. 10/1 The apotheosis of the chat show arrives tonight when Muggeridge guests for Parkinson. 1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women ii. 89 If he ever got tired of editing he could have walked into a job as a chat-show host on any of the TV channels. Draft additions 1993 chat line n. [line n.² 1e] a telephone or electronic messaging service which enables subscribers to exchange casual conversation, either individually or by means of a conference line, with other subscribers or with employees of the service. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone services answering service1904 information1910 speaking clock1934 talking clock1936 TIM1936 telebus1942 wake-up service1946 subscriber trunk dialling1952 freephone1959 telephone hotline1961 WATS1962 call waiting1963 night line1970 phone-in1970 telephone helpline1970 help-line1980 line1983 Cellnet1984 chat line1984 Vodafone1984 telepoint1987 callback1992 1984 InfoWorld 26 Mar. 103/3 CompuServe once seemed mainly to target the home user with its on-line games and chat lines, but now offers many of the same business services available on The Source. 1987 Advertising Age 14 Sept. 92/2 Minitel didn't really boom until the 1981 introduction of chat lines that allow Minitel users to converse with one another directly. 1991 Independent on Sunday 24 Mar. 25/7 Yesterday there were 20 [advertisements] promoting pornographic ‘chat lines’ in which one is, for instance, invited to ‘talk dirty’. 1992 Economist 11 Apr. 25/4 Oftel, the telecommunications watchdog, pulled the plug on telephone chatlines. The chatline operators had failed to come up with £600,000 ($1m) demanded by Oftel, to compensate desperate parents whose offspring ran up gigantic bills. Draft additions June 2001 Computing and Telecommunications. A facility for the online exchange of messages in real time by two or more simultaneous users of a computer network (esp. the internet) whereby text keyed by one participant appears immediately on the monitors of all. Also: (an instance of) this form of online communication. Frequently attributive. Earliest in chat line n. at Additions; see also chat room n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1985 Today's Computers Mar. 26/3 Chat, a mode [of computers connected as a Local Area Network] in which two or more users may type messages on each other's terminals, enabling back-and-forth conversations through the network without waiting for electronic mail to be sent and received. 1992 Portable Computing 1 i. 53/1 The newest packages..also have a chat feature so users can exchange remarks online. 1994 CompuServe Mag. Mar. 16/1 ‘Adult-oriented’ games and CD-ROMs; steamy online ‘chats’; people discussing their sex lives and wanton desires with strangers in online forums. 1996 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 87/1 Since I splashed out on a computer and discovered the ‘chat forums’, I haven't even glanced at my TV. Draft additions June 2001 chat room n. Computing and Telecommunications an online messaging facility (esp. an internet site) dedicated to real-time exchanges, usually on a particular topic; a notional space occupied by two or more participants in an online chat service. ΚΠ 1989 T.H.E. Jrnl. (Nexis) Feb. 68 BBS ‘chat rooms’, which allow up to 23 people to converse in real time, will be regularly used. 1996 N.Y. Daily News (Electronic ed.) 29 Dec. He knew the pair became acquainted in the chat room, an independent site on the World Wide Web devoted to a vampire fantasy role-playing game. 2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 10 Feb. Whenever you enter a live chat room for the first time..it's hard not to be momentarily transfixed by the torrent of text messages rushing down your screen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chatn.² Brit. /tʃat/, U.S. /tʃæt/ Etymology: < chat v.¹, in reference to the character of their voice. a. A name applied to several birds, chiefly Sylviadæ or Warblers: viz. to the species of Saxicola, the Furze-chat or Whin-chat, Stone-chat, and Wheat-ear; also to the Hay-chat or Nettle-creeper, and Sedge Warbler. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola chat1704 nun1918 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > species schoenobaenus (sedge warbler) reed-sparrow1676 chat1704 sedge-bird1738 willow-lark1769 sedge-warbler1776 reed-bird1782 sedge-wren1802 night singer1816 sedge reedling1837 mockingbird1883 fisherman's nightingale1884 sally picker1885 1704 Nat. Hist. ii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 185 The Chatt. Has a black Tail with white tips. 1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 106 The Chats come to us in April and breed, and about Autumn return to Africk. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 405 Chats, larks, and grey wagtails. 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxviii. 543 The Whitethroat..sometimes called the Hay chat and Nettle-creeper. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 50 The chats, who perch on the furze or on the heaps of flints. b. In North America, to other birds, e.g. the Yellow-breasted Chat ( Icteria polyglotta) and Long-tailed Chat ( I. longicauda). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of redstart1731 chat1796 rosy finch1801 redstart warbler1815 orangequit1847 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 209 Yellow Breasted Chat, Garrulus Australis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chatn.³ Brit. /tʃat/, U.S. /tʃæt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s chatte. Etymology: < French chats barren flowers of walnut, hazel, willows, etc., lit. ‘cats’, from their downy appearance; compare the equivalent French chatons kittens, Dutch katteken , English catkin n. Sense 2 (if related) is perhaps a loose popular extension of the word. Obsolete or dialect. 1. A name given to the catkin, inflorescence, or seed of various plants: a. The downy catkin of the willow, pine, oak, hazel, etc. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > of particular type, shape, or arrangement > catkin(s) or unisexual in florescence chatc1400 tappette1561 catkin1578 chaton1578 kitekin1578 taglet1578 tag1597 cat's tail1611 nucament1633 tassel1646 catling1665 iulus1668 amentum1720 jul1725 ament1783 pussycat1850 lamb's tails1882 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xv. 168 The long Peper..is lyche the Chattes of Haselle, that comethe before the Lef, and it hangeth lowe. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 460 The Oke called Robur, bringeth forth likewise a certaine pendant chat or catkin. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. Chats, the catkins of trees. †b. The spikes or spikelets of grasses, carices, and the like. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > part of bladec1450 grass root1474 bent1577 chat1601 grasstop1659 knee1678 locusta1707 straw1776 spikelet1793 strap1793 sheath-scale1796 spiket1796 stragule1821 scutellum1832 scobina1839 rachilla1842 chaff-scale1856 coleorhiza1866 hypoblast1882 lemma1906 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. vii Panick..is found with a tuft or bunch, from which depend certain small clustered chats or panicles. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 3 It commeth from a certaine fennie reed growing in marishes, I meane the tender muchets or chats thereof. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 557 Certaine chats or catkins which grow vpon many reeds and canes. †c. The ‘key’ or samaroid seed of the ash, sycamore, and other trees. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun] > seed pod ash-key1440 chat1562 kite-key1578 cat-keys1694 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 30, in Bulwarke of Defence And the coddes did grow upon clusters, like the chattes or kaies of Ashe trees. 1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden vi. 14 Ashes, Rountrees, Burt trees, and such like, caried in the chat, or bery, by the byrds into stone walles. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 14 Chats, Keys of Trees, as Ashchats, Sycomore Chats, etc. d. The scaly cone (strobilus) of alder, pine, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone pine nuteOE nutOE pineapplea1398 cone1562 cone-nut1562 pineapple nut1568 clog1577 chat1697 fir-apple1712 pine cone1723 strobilus1753 strobile1777 fir-bob1854 fir-ball1878 dennebol1909 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 374 I observed about Mid-August, the Chats of the Alder to be Gummy. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Chats, the cones of the fir-tree. 2. A small branch or twig, such as is used for kindling a fire. Also chat-wood n. dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling hostry faggot1594 chat1670 fire faggota1722 hostry-wood1738 kindling wood1783 kindler1791 fire kindling1849 crack1851 split1858 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §4. 128 Their boles and boughes, their buds and chats, their leaves and flowers, sprouting upwards.] 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 42 Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out. 1670 E. Tonge in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1165 And in what forwardness their Buds and Leaves, or Chats were then shot, or broken.] 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Chat-wood, little sticks fit for fuel. 1794 in Ann. Reg. 361 Even the spray-wood, here called chats..might be made into fagots. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Chats, small branches or twigs used for firing. ‘Dick, run an' fatch tuthree dry chats to put i' the oven’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chatn.⁴ dialect. A small poor potato. ΚΠ 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 181 Buy inferior meat, chats, and rye-bread. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 179 Potatoes, small and waxy, such as we should call chats in England. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chat (Mid. and E. Lanc.), a small potato. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Chats, small and diseased potatoes, unfit for market. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018). chatn.⁵ Mining. Ore with a portion of the matrix adhering to it, forming the second portion or stratum of a mass of ore in the process of washing. ΚΠ 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Chat, ore and stone together, Nidd. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 117 Chats, Northumb., Small pieces of stone with ore. Compounds Categories » chat-mill n. = chat-roller n. chat-roller n. a special mill or roller through which the ‘chats’ have to go, the product being known as chat-ore or ‘seconds’. ΚΠ 1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 140/1 Crushing machine, Chat-roller, (a machine consisting of two cast-iron rollers, used in squeezing or crushing the roasted iron ores). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † chatn.⁶ Etymology: Aphetic < achat. Obsolete. = cate n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > bought food cates1461 chat1584 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 43 The greatest part of theyr provision consisting in choise chats and junkettinge dishes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). chatn.⁷ Thieves' Cant. A louse. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Chatts, lice. 1725 in New Canting Dict. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 162 Chats, lice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018). chatv.¹ Brit. /tʃat/, U.S. /tʃæt/ Forms: Middle English–1500s chatt(e, 1500s chate, Middle English– chat. Etymology: apparently an onomatopoeic abbreviation of chatter v., which has lost the frequentative, and to some extent the depreciative, force of that word. †1. intransitive. To talk idly and foolishly; to prate, babble, chatter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 3 I charge ȝou as ȝour chiftan þat ȝe chatt for no chaunce. 1483 Cath. Angl. 60 To Chatte, garrulare. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. Prol. f. i^v Thoughe I shulde all day tell Or chat with my ryme dogerell. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ei What nede you with hym thus prate and chat. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 370 To chat like a pie, or like a bird in a cage. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Babillarde, a title-tatle..a chatting or chattering Minx. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 121. 1617 Janua Linguarum 18 Admit not thy wife to thy secrets; for she will vndoe you both by chatting. 2. transitive. To chatter, prate, or prattle (a thing); to utter familiarly; to talk in a gossiping way. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] cacklec1230 chattera1250 clapc1315 jangle1377 blabberc1380 trattlea1425 pratea1475 chat1483 prattlea1500 prittle-prattlea1555 gabble1566 blatter?1567 gaggle1577 clacket1579 knap1581 prittle1583 clack1590 volley1591 tattle1593 prabble1603 out-babble1649 garrulate1656 gabber?1661 chime1697 spiel1904 chitter-chatter1928 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. qvv While she lyueth she may chatt [L. obganniat] it at hys eere. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 4/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I A woman..possesst with a babbling spirite, that coulde haue chatted any language sauing the Irishe. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 To what purpose do I chat such ianglerye trim trams? 1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum 37 Bent to learn this Language, for fear..they should not chat it handsomely when they came to heaven. a1745 J. Swift Let. to Archbishop Dublin in Wks. (1765) VIII. i. 183 To chat their scandal over an infusion of sage. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xliii. 257 The other men stood chatting politics and the latest news. 3. intransitive. To talk in a light and informal manner; to converse familiarly and pleasantly. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat dallyc1300 confablec1450 crack1529 tattle1547 chat1551 confabulate1604 confab1741 prosea1764 parleyvoo1765 coze1818 yarn1819 cosher1833 to pass a good morning1835 small-talk1848 mardle1853 cooze1870 chinwag1879 rap1909 kibitz1923 to shoot the breeze1941 old-talk1956 ole-talk1971 gyaff1976 gist1992 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. to P. Gyles sig. ✠vii^v I muste commen with my wife, chatte with my chyldren, and talke wyth my seruantes. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 51 Matter for them and others to chat of. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 27. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn viii, in Poems 5 The Shepherds on the Lawn..Sate simply chatting in a rustick row. 1740 R. West Let. 5 June in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 165 They can chat about trifles. a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan xxiii, in Wks. (1954) VI. 284 After chatting on indifferent subjects. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 245 Lord and Lady Burworth, and the Squire, were chatting by the fire. †4. transitive. To speak familiarly of, talk of, tell as gossip. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)] > spread (a rumour) or tell (as a gossip) rumour1548 chata1593 buzz1616 start1645 a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 406 She began to chat the same amongst her gossips. 1596 W. Smith Chloris (1877) 11 When to my flocke my daily woes I chate. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 205 Your pratling Nurse Into a rapture lets her Baby crie, While she chats him [sc. Coriolanus] . View more context for this quotation 5. To address, talk to (a person); to advise; to approach or address tentatively; to flirt with. Also with up. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt with [verb (transitive)] gallant1672 coquet1725 chat1898 trick1913 vamp1918 to make time with1934 to come on1948 chirpse1997 the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > speak to or address [verb (transitive)] speakc950 beclepec1220 enreason1297 saluec1300 calla1325 clepe1362 to speak on ——?1370 salutec1380 to call upon ——c1405 escry1483 assaya1522 treatc1540 accost1567 encounter1578 bespeaka1593 affront1598 parley1611 address1683 chin-chin1817 chat1898 1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. Chat, to flirt with. Londonderry. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands x. 132 I want ter chat yeh. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 19 I tried to chat 'er, like you'd make a start Wiv any tart. c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 69 He drinks with a bloke and chats him. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 50 She had earned it too the way he had chatted her. 1959 Streetwalker i. 10 Big Barbara is chatting a geezer, though the stream of polished professional patter she is directing at him warrants a less terse description. 1963 Daily Mail 22 Jan. 6/3 If you try to chat up a girl and she gives you the heavy fish it means she's ignored your advances. 1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water vii. 34 I was chatting her up the other day. 1963 Sunday Express 10 Mar. 22/7 He saw a pretty girl..smiling at him. He smiled right back. ‘I like chatting the birds,’ he said. 1966 K. Amis Anti-death League 330 I must have spent a bit of time chatting them up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † chatv.² Obsolete. Scottish. Generally referred to chate n., and explained as ‘Hang’: but this is quite uncertain. ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 126 Quod I: ‘Churle, ga chat the, and chyde with ane other’. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 He chereist hir scho bad ga chat him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > see also also refers to : chatechattechatn. < n.¹c1530n.²1704n.³c1400n.⁴1840n.⁵1855n.⁶1584n.⁷1699v.¹c1440v.²a1522 see also
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