'Chat' definitions:
Definition of 'chat'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat, chat]
noun
Songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat, chat]
verb
Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
Definition of 'Chat'
From: GCIDE
- Chat \Chat\ (ch[a^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Chatting.] [From Chatter. [root]22.] To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To chat a while on their adventures. --Dryden.
- Syn: To talk; chatter; gossip; converse. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chat'
From: GCIDE
- Chat \Chat\, v. t. To talk of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chat'
From: GCIDE
- Chat \Chat\, n.
- 1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. [1913 Webster]
- Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (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 Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat. [1913 Webster]
- Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chat'
From: GCIDE
- Chat \Chat\, n.
- 1. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore. [1913 Webster]
- Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.] [1913 Webster]