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noun

Chat n.

Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. "Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that."

(Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush.

Chat n.

A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore.

Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. (Local.)

verb

Chat v. t. To talk of. (Obs.)

Chat v. i. (past & past part. chatted; pres. part. chatting) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. "To chat a while on their adventures."

Synonyms: To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.

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Etymology of 'Chat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chat" Quotes from Famous Books

... shower of blood. The sky then seemed to be overspread with a mass of black clouds adorned with flashes of lightning. A thunder-storm was then heard, accompanied with loud reports and loud roars of clouds. Loud sounds also of chat, chat, were heard in that dreadful battle. Beholding that illusion created by the Rakshasa Alayudha, the Rakshasa Ghatotkacha, soaring aloft, destroyed it by means of his own illusion. Alayudha, beholding his own illusion destroyed by that of his foe, began to pour a heavy shower of stones ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... responded, sweetly. "Come to-morrow, and we'll have another little chat. By the bye, how long do you expect to remain ...

— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming

... was my long illness and the house was sold torn down for a great factory. Then I took up the sewing. It was easier in some ways. I liked Sally Marks and her mother so much. The gay jolliness and the merry chat. They were like two girls together. But your heart was set on the High School. Oh, Lilian, do believe I would have kept you there if I could. Then I began to wonder what your own mother and father had been like, and if your father was alive. Perhaps he could have done much better for you. The ...

— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... Tennant boys. She did not darn well; but then, Mrs. Tennant was not particular. She certainly—although she said she would not—did cobble these stockings to an extraordinary extent; but her work and the chat with Mrs. Tennant did her good, and she went upstairs to dress for supper in a ...

— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... the beefy policeman coaxed. "No one's broken any law. Nobody's under arrest. We just want to chat a minute with whoever it was filled ...

— Master of None • Lloyd Neil Goble

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