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chitchat
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chitchat has 1 sense
- chitchat(n = noun.communication) causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, 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
Verb chitchat has 1 sense
- chitchat(v = verb.communication) chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, 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
Derived forms noun chit chat1, noun chit-chat1, noun chitchat1
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue chitchat
Sam wants to chitchat with Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
chitchat, n. [From Chat, by way of reduplication.].
Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
chitchat
babble, back-fence gossip, backchat, beauty-parlor chitchat, cackle, chat, chatter, chitter, chitter-chatter, clack, cocktail-party chitchat, gabble, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, idle chat, idle talk, newsmongering, piece of gossip, prattle, small talk, story, table talk, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk, talkee-talkee, tattle, tea-table talk, tittle-tattleROGET THESAURUS
chitchat
Conversation
N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.
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