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chatted up

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chat

  [chat] verb, chat⋅ted, chat⋅ting, noun
Use chatted up in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to converse in a familiar or informal manner.
–noun
2. informal conversation: We had a pleasant chat.
3. any of several small Old World thrushes, esp. of the genus Saxicola, having a chattering cry.
4. yellow-breasted chat.
—Verb phrase
5. chat up, Chiefly British.
a. to talk flirtatiously with.
b. to talk to in a friendly, open way.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; short for chatter

Related forms:
chat⋅ta⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1, 2. talk, chitchat, gossip, visit.
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Word Origin & History

chat 
c.1440, short for chatter (q.v.). Chatty is first attested 1762.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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