chit-chat

WORDNET DICTIONARY

chit-chat(n = noun.communication) causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle - light informal conversation for social occasions; Array

is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze

Derived form verb chitchat₁

chit-chat(v = verb.communication) chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

is one way to converse, discourse

Sample sentence:
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chit-chat, n. & v. colloq.
--n. light conversation; gossip.
--v.intr. (-chatted, -chatting) talk informally; gossip.

Etymology

redupl. of CHAT(1)

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