What does "chat" mean?
Chat: Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope.
Additional senses
- 2.(Zoöl.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yelow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.
- 3.A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
- 4.pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore. Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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