Chats

Chats

1. (UK, naval slang) Chatham.
   • 1918, Chambers's Journal, volume 95, page 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.

   • 1997, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak, page 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 […]

• Satch, Stach, caths, chast, scath, tachs

• Chatz, Chazz, Chaz
• Kàtz (Alsatian)
• chatza, chatzu, chatzò, chàzzà (Walser)

From Old High German kazza, earlier *katta, from Late Latin catta, feminine of cattus.

Chats f (diminutive Chatsli)

1. (Uri) cat (house cat)

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

Chats m

1. plural of Chat