chat

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English [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

Abbreviation of chatter.

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Particularly: “bird and louse also from chatter??”

Verb [edit]

chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)

Two people chatting. (1) (2)
  1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
    She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
    I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
  2. To talk more than a few words.
    I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
  3. 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?
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Noun [edit]

chat (countable and uncountable; plural chats)

  1. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
  2. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
  3. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
  4. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the subfamily Saxicolini that feed on insects.
  5. (UK, slang) A louse.
  6. small potatoes, such as are given to swine
  7. Alternative form of chaat.
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Origin unknown.

Noun [edit]

chat (plural chats)

  1. (mining, local use) 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.
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Dutch [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /tʃɛt/

Etymology [edit]

From English.

Noun [edit]

chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje)

  1. chat (online conversation)
  2. chat (online conversation platform)

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Verb [edit]

chat

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
  2. imperative of chatten

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French [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Late Late Latin cattus.

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Noun [edit]

chat m (plural chats)

  1. cat (feline)
  2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
  3. tag, tig (children’s game)
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Etymology 2 [edit]

English chat

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Noun [edit]

chat m (plural chats)

  1. (Internet) chat (online discussion)
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Iban [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Min Nan  (chhat), from Middle Chinese  (tsit).

Noun [edit]

chat

  1. paint (substance)

Irish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /xat̪ˠ/

Noun [edit]

chat m

  1. Mutated form of cat.

Italian [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From English.

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chat f (invariable)

  1. chat (informal conversation via computer)
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From Somali.

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Noun [edit]

chat m (invariable)

  1. chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)
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Middle French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Late Latin cattus

Noun [edit]

chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)

  1. cat (animal)

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Old French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Late Latin cattus

Noun [edit]

chat m (oblique plural chats, nominative singular chats, nominative plural chat)

  1. cat (animal)

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