bechat

See also: bêchât

English

Etymology

From be- (“over, about, concerning”) +‎ chat.

Verb

bechat (third-person singular simple present bechats, present participle bechatting, simple past and past participle bechatted)

1. (transitive) To chat over or about; discuss.
   • 1845, Emma Robinson, Whitehall:

     [...] whose impartial sobriety of opinion is only equalled by its sagacity and penetration, never deceived. And thus bechatting, of a sudden the stranger demands of me, if I had read, seen, or heard of the so-called Romance of "WHITE-FRIARS!"

2. (transitive, dialectal) To bewitch.

Anagrams

• beatch, betcha