chat
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Verb edit
chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
- I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
- To talk more than a few words.
- I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- They chatted politics for a while.
- 2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43:
- We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
- 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)
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
- 1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256:
- While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
- (metonymically, video games, uncountable) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
- "Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Derived terms edit
- backchat (back-chat, back chat)
- chatbox
- chat group
- chatroom (chat-room)
- chat site
- chat-tanager
- chatteration
- chatterer
- chatterish
- chattily
- chattiness
- chatty
- chat-tyrant
- chitchat (chit-chat, chit chat)
- cyberchat
- e-chat
- enter the chat
- F in the chat
- fireside chat
- group chat
- hot chat
- leave the chat
- robin-chat
- rufous bush chat
- stonechat
- video chat
- web chat
- whinchat
- yellow-breasted chat
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Etymology 2 edit
Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.[1]
Noun edit
chat
References edit
Etymology 3 edit
Unknown.
Noun edit
chat (plural chats)
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 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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Etymology 4 edit
From thieves' cant.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
chat (plural chats)
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:
- 'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'
- 'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
- 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls?, →ISBN, page 18:
- May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
- 2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149:
- Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.
- 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:
Etymology 5 edit
Noun edit
chat (plural chats)
- Alternative form of chaat
Anagrams edit
Antillean Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
chat
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
chat
- inflection of chatten:
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat m (plural chats, feminine chatte)
- cat (feline)
- 1910, Henry-D. Davray, B. Kozakiewicz (tr.), La Guerre dans les airs, translation of The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, page 335:
- Soudain, d’un seul élan, cela se précipita sur lui, avec un miaulement plaintif et la queue droite. C’était un jeune chat, menu et décharné, qui frottait sa tête contre les jambes de Bert, en ronronnant.
- It advanced suddenly upon him with a rush, with a little meawling cry and tail erect. It rubbed its head against him and purred. It was a tiny, skinny little kitten.
- (male) cat, tom, tomcat
- 1896, Paul Margueritte, “Une flaque”, in L’eau qui dort, Paris: Armand Colin et cie, […], section II, pages 102–103:
- — Est-ce un chat ou une chatte ? » demanda Jean.
Sophie ne se prononça point, Alice devint rouge et dit en riant :
« C’est un chat !
— En êtes-vous sûre ? demanda Jean.
— Ah bien! fit Alice, pour sûr ! »- "Is it a tomcat or a girl cat?" asked Jean.
Sophie not having spoken, Alice turned red and said, laughing:
"It's a tomcat!"
"Are you sure?" asked Jean.
"Of course," said Alice, "for sure!"
- "Is it a tomcat or a girl cat?" asked Jean.
- tag, tig (children’s game)
- 2023 August, Arnaud de Montjoye, “En touriste à Auschwitz”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 24:
- Alors, quand il repère, sur le Web, une scène croustillante montrant un groupe en train de se livrer à « une partie de chat, à poil, dans un camp de la mort », c’est comme un déclic.
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Derived terms edit
- à bon chat, bon rat
- à ne pas mettre un chat dehors
- absent le chat, les souris dansent
- acheter chat en poche
- appeler un chat un chat
- arbre à chat
- avoir d’autres chats à fouetter
- avoir un chat dans la gorge
- chat à neuf queues
- chat bai
- chat de gouttière
- chat de jungle
- chat de Margueritte
- chat des marais
- chat des sables
- chat domestique
- chat du désert
- chat du général Margueritte
- chat échaudé craint l’eau froide
- chat forestier
- chat forestier européen
- chat haret
- chat perché
- chat sauvage
- chat sauvage d’Europe
- chat sauvage européen
- chat sylvestre
- chat-huant
- chat-tigre
- chataire
- chatière
- chaton
- chatonner
- chatte
- chattemite
- chatterie
- comme chien et chat
- c’est le chat qui se mord la queue
- donner sa langue au chat
- donner sa langue au chat
- il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort
- il n’y a pas de quoi fouetter un chat
- il n’y a pas un chat
- jeu du chat et de la souris
- jouer au chat et à la souris
- la nuit, tous les chats sont gris
- langue de chat
- langue-de-chat
- le chat parti, les souris dansent
- les chats ne font pas des chiens
- les chiens ne font pas des chats
- mousse du chat
- pas de chat
- pied de chat
- quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent
- syndrome du cri du chat
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Louisiana Creole: sha
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat m (plural chats)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “chat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
chat
- cat
- (colloquial) thief
- pussy (genitals)
Hokkien edit
For pronunciation and definitions of chat – see 節 (“knot; node; joint; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 節). |
For pronunciation and definitions of chat – see 紮 (“to tie; to bind; bundle; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 紮). |
For pronunciation and definitions of chat – see 匝. (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 匝). |
For pronunciation and definitions of chat – see 扎 (“to stab; to prick; to puncture; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 扎). |
For pronunciation and definitions of chat – see 札 (“letter; note; correspondence; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 札). |
For pronunciation and definitions of chat – see 砸 (“to crush; to smash; to bash; to smash; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 砸). |
Iban edit
Etymology edit
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chat
- paint (substance)
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
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chat m
- Lenited form of cat.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat f (invariable)
- chat (informal conversation via computer)
Derived terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit
From Somali [Term?].
Pronunciation edit
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chat m (invariable)
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
chat
- to talk about, to discuss
- Synonym: taak
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Luuk 24:14:
- Dem did a chat bout evriting wa apm.
- They talked about everything that happened.
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3 Jan 1:14:
- Mi suun kom luk fi yu, so wi kyan sidong an chat.
- I hope to see you soon and talk face to face.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.
Noun edit
chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)
- cat (animal)
Descendants edit
- French: chat
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat m (definite singular chaten, indefinite plural chatar, definite plural chatane)
References edit
- “chat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- cat, kat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)
Etymology edit
From Late Latin cattus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat oblique singular, m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)
- cat (animal)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Polish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat m inan (related adjective chatowy)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- chatować impf
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat f
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat m (plural chats)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chat.
Noun edit
chat n (uncountable)
- chat (online)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat m (plural chats)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “chat”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chat.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/, [ˈt͡ʃat]
- Rhymes: -at
Noun edit
chat (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜆ᜔) (Internet)
- chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “chat” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “chat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chat (definite accusative chati, plural chatler)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | chat | |
Definite accusative | chati | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | chat | chatler |
Definite accusative | chati | chatleri |
Dative | chate | chatlere |
Locative | chatte | chatlerde |
Ablative | chatten | chatlerden |
Genitive | chatin | chatlerin |