chitchat

Speech parts

1. chitchat - Noun

2. chitchat - Verb

Meaning

Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

claver gab natter chaffer visit jaw chat gossip chatter chit-chat tittle-tattle shoot the breeze confab confabulate chew the fat
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Antonyms

patter battle experience keep answer incident
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Hypernyms

discourse converse chat confabulation confab schmooze

Hyponyms

jawbone schmooze schmoose shmooze shmoose

Phrases with the word

beauty-parlor chitchat

Derivatives

chitchatted chitchatting

Examples

What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday? Konrad Adenauer

Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee. Louis V. Gerstner

Miss Erstwhile: "It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.” Mr. Nobley: "And yet you chat away. Shannon Hale

the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze Source: Internet

I went into polite chitchat mode, even in my agony: “Oh, have you raced this before?” Source: Internet

Stand there staring, chitchat, check your phone? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Chitaldurg chitarrone chitarronist chitchatted chitchatting chitenge