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Noun idle talk has 1 sense

• idle talk(n = noun.communication) blether, chin music, prate, prattle - idle or foolish and irrelevant talk; Array
is a kind of cackle, chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak

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idle talk

babble, babblement, back-fence gossip, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitchat, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, guff, hot air, jabber, mere talk, natter, newsmongering, nonsense talk, palaver, piece of gossip, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, story, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk, talkee-talkee, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, yak, yakkety-yak

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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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