chat

nl-noun

chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)

chats (plural)
chatje (diminutive neuter)


chat

first/second/third-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


chat

She chatted with her friend in the cafe.

I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.

I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.

They chatted politics for a while.

We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.

Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.

(informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).

Do you want to chat online later?

To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

(by extension, Philippines) To send a text message via Facebook Messenger instead of via SMS.

en-verb

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

chat Two people chatting. (canonical)
chats (present singular third-person)
chatting (participle present)
chatted (participle past)
chatted (past)

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.


chat

It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.

Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.

Internet Relay Chat

(countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?

Chat, is this prime minister serious?

2024 September 11, Fatima Payman, 00:48 from the start, in Skibidi Senator Payman + 100,000 aura (video), archived from the original on 2024-09-12:

(Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

(metonymically, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.

(by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."

Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me.

While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]

1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256:

(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.

en-noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

談話 /谈话

conversation to stop an argument or settle situations


chat

Wheat and potatoes were traditionally cash crops, though they also provided tail corn for the poultry and chats for the pigs

1978, Joan Thirsk, Edith Holt Whetham, H. P. R. Finberg, The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 8, 1914-1939, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.


chat

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.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 441:

(mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.


chat

'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.'

1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520

May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.

2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls?, →ISBN, page 18:

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.

2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149:

(British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).


chat

Coordinate term: chata f


chat

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.

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:

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.

— 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 ! »

1896, Paul Margueritte, “Une flaque”, in L’eau qui dort, Paris: Armand Colin et cⁱᵉ, […], section II, pages 102–103:

"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!"

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.

2023 August, Arnaud de Montjoye, “En touriste à Auschwitz”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 24:

il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort

quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent

Louisiana Creole: sha

Inherited from Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.


chat

chat (informal conversation via computer)


chat

chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)


chat

Dem did a chat bout evriting wa apm.

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Luuk 24:14:

They talked about everything that happened.

Mi suun kom luk fi yu, so wi kyan sidong an chat.

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3 Jan 1:14:

I hope to see you soon and talk face to face.


chat

head

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

chats (plural)
chatz (plural)
chatte (feminine singular)
chattes (feminine plural)

French: chat

From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.


chat

chaten (definite singular)
chatar (indefinite plural)
chatane (definite plural)


chat

fro-noun

chat oblique singular, m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)

chat oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chaz (oblique plural)
chatz (oblique plural)
chaz (nominative singular)
chatz (nominative singular)
chat (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: chait

desc

Champenois: chait (Troyen), tait (Rémois)

Franc-Comtois: tchait

Middle French: chat

French: chat

Lorrain: tchat

Norman: cat

Picard: cat

Poitevin-Saintongeais: chat

Walloon: tchet


chat

chatowy (adjective)
chat (nominative singular)
chaty (nominative plural)
chatu (genitive singular)
chatów (genitive plural)
chatowi (dative singular)
chatom (dative plural)
chat (accusative singular)
chaty (accusative plural)
chatem (instrumental singular)
chatami (instrumental plural)
chacie (locative singular)
chatach (locative plural)
chacie (singular vocative)
chaty (plural vocative)


chat

chat (accusative indefinite nominative)
chatul (accusative definite nominative)
chat (indefinite)
chatului (definite)
chatule (vocative)


chat

chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)


chat

head

chat (definite accusative chati, plural chatler)

chati (accusative definite)
chatler (plural)
chat (nominative singular)
chatler (nominative plural)
chati (accusative definite singular)
chatleri (accusative definite plural)
chate (dative singular)
chatlere (dative plural)
chatte (locative singular)
chatlerde (locative plural)
chatten (ablative singular)
chatlerden (ablative plural)
chatin (genitive singular)
chatlerin (genitive plural)