1509. Barclay, Ship of Fooles (1570), 39. For all their chatting and plentie of language.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 289 b. He could not … awaye with the chattyng and contynual bableyng of Cicero.
1613. T. Godwin, Rom. Antiq. (1625), 48. The Augures did divine from hearing the chatting or the crowing of the birds.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1810), I. 276. The impertinent chattings, which are so rife in the world.
1884. Chr. World, 9 Oct., 762/5. An hour spent in chatting.
