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Chit-chat

noun

Light informal conversation for social occasions. Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle.

verb

Talk socially without exchanging too much information. Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.

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"Chit-chat" Quotes from Famous Books

... pretty little bedizened boudoir, blue silk hangings elegantly festooned with bird cages; couches and divans for its mistress's dogs and cats; with a spare seat for a friend who might venture in at any time for a dish of private chit-chat with the lady of the Hall. Into this apartment I was confidentially drawn by Mrs. Hill on the morning after my moonlight conversation with John, as with heavy eyes and hectic cheeks, but with a saucy tongue in ...

— The Late Miss Hollingford • Rosa Mulholland

... children, is a constant source of pleasure. Youth is the seed-time of life, and you must be careful so to plant now, as to ensure to yourselves hereafter, not only a plentiful, but a valuable harvest. It is growing late—we must think of our history, or we shall spend all the evening in chit-chat. Edward, ...

— Domestic pleasures - or, the happy fire-side • F. B. Vaux