Chats

See also: chats

English

Proper noun

Chats

1. (UK, naval slang) Chatham.
   • 1918, Chambers's Journal (volume 95, page 393)

     I think it is a libel, for I have yet to learn that West Country sailor-men are fonder of their victuals than those from 'Pompey' (Portsmouth), or 'Chats' (Chatham), or than Scotsmen, Irishmen, or Welshmen.

   • 1997, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak (page 132)

     He leaned half his body out of the carriage window as we slowly pulled over the timber baulks of the rebuilt bridges, and shouted 'Up the workers!' until a Petty Officer in the next compartment also leaned out and told him, 'Shit in it, you bloody Bolshie, or I'll have your cap as soon as we get to Chats.'
     […] Once inside the prison-like walls of Chatham barracks we were all marched into the drafting office […]

Anagrams

• Satch, Stach, caths, chast, scath, tachs

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Chatz, Chazz, Chaz
• Kàtz (Alsatian)
• chatza, chatzu, chatzò, chàzzà (Walser)

Etymology

From Old High German kazza, earlier *katta, from Late Latin catta, feminine of cattus.

Noun

Chats f (diminutive Chatsli)

1. (Uri) cat (house cat)

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

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German

Noun

Chats m

1. plural of Chat