Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of chinwag.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a light informal conversation for social occasions.
WordNet 3.0
- n. light informal conversation for social occasions
- n. light informal conversation for social occasions
Examples
“On one side we had Tory leader David Cameron and on the other we had Labour backbencher and all-round outspoken funny-man, Stephen Pound - happily laughing, joking and having a good old chin-wag together.”
“Heath Row's flying fingers have produced an astonishing near-transcript of the proceedings at David Isenberg's WTF? conference, wherein tech, telco and policy wonks are having a hell of a chin-wag:”
“I had quite a good chin-wag with him for 10 minutes or so, and I have to say he seemed a really nice guy.”
“Mr Chris Mac also dropped in for a drink, a "tab" not LSD, but Scot-speak for a cigarette, so I have learned and a chin-wag.”
“When General Kynot spied Liir standing there — so much for the vigilance of their sentries! — he lop-winged over and indicated, with a strict jerk of his head, that they should retreat into the gorge for a bit of a chin-wag.”
“Much as I enjoy a good chin-wag, gents, I'd remind ye that we're all in immediate danger and our journey here was to seek the help of the Grey Lords, whom we understood these Off-Moo fellers to be.”
“Now I'm goin 'to let you go, so you, an' that skunk Lablache'll be able to chin-wag over this night's doin's.”
“His jaw is all right, only he doesn't use it enough; in books the strong, silent man is a regular old chin-wag, and yet I fall over myself to answer his buzzer.”
“He knows the driver and indulges in a pleasant chin-wag, or chat, with one of the sprinkling of other passengers.”
“Chestnut St., we will take the stage to have a little chin-wag about the fall arts season”
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Words I have learned that I can't eve...
fillip, tocsin, subfusc, lacuna, popinjay, sylvan, dubiety, doff, mimetic, cogitate, chthonic, neophyte and 134 more...
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