| 词汇 | chat |
| 词源 | chat; chatter; chatterbox. Chat, like blab, is a truncated form of an earlier word, chatter, which is supposed to be an echoic word imitative of the sound of birds chirping. Chatter is first recorded in about 1225, chat, for “to talk idly,” about three centuries later. Chatterbox is an Americanism first recorded in 1814. |
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