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ChatEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Clipping of ChatGPT.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chatEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der. Middle English chateren English chatterclip. English chat Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
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Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.
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chatEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From thieves' cant.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- ChatEnglish · e-37683-4778
Chat, chat, v.i. to talk idly or familiarly:—pr.p. chat′ting; pa.p. chat′ted.—n. familiar, idle talk.—n. Chat′tiness.—adj. Chat′ty, given to chat, talkative. [Short for Chatter.]
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Chat, chat, n. a genus of small birds in the thrush family, of which the wheatear is a familiar example. [From the sound of their voice.]
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