carawat* v also corawat* [phonetics unavailable]. JOYCE 231 caravat and
shanavest 'names of two hostile factions'; DINNEEN carabhat 'cravat.' To gossip, talk
idly; argue. P 24-67 He thought we were corawatting together about
it when he found the line busy. Q 67-41 A bunch of old women carawattin' over the back
fence.
