Chats

chats English Proper noun en UK naval _ slang Chatham. en 1918 Chambers's Journal 95 393 I think it is a libel, for I have yet to learn that West Country sailor-men are fonder of their victuals than those from 'Pompey' (Portsmouth), or 'Chats' (Chatham), or than Scotsmen, Irishmen, or Welshmen. en 1997 Tristan Jones Heart of Oak 132 He leaned half his body out of the carriage window as we slowly pulled over the timber baulks of the rebuilt bridges, and shouted 'Up the workers!' until a Petty Officer in the next compartment also leaned out and told him, 'Shit in it, you bloody Bolshie, or I'll have your cap as soon as we get to Chats.' Once inside the prison-like walls of Chatham barracks we were all marched into the drafting office Anagrams en achst Satch Stach caths chast scath tachs Alemannic German als:+ Alternative forms gsw Chatz Chazz Chaz gsw Kàtz Alsatian gsw chatza chatzu chatzò chàzzà Walser Etymology From gsw goh kazza, earlier goh *katta, from gsw la-lat catta, feminine of la cattus. Noun gsw noun f diminutive Chatsli gsw Uri cat house cat References gsw Cats German Pronunciation de De-Chats.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun de noun form m de Chat