bechat
See also: bêchât
English
Etymology
From be- (“over, about, concerning”) + chat.
Verb
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- (transitive) To chat over or about; discuss.
- 1845, Emma Robinson, Whitehall:
- [...] whose impartial sobriety of opinion is only equalled by its sagacity and penetration, never deceived. And thus bechatting, of a sudden the stranger demands of me, if I had read, seen, or heard of the so-called Romance of "WHITE-FRIARS!"
- (transitive, dialectal) To bewitch.