Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. light informal conversation for social occasions
Examples
“People who insist on speaking via phone suck up the time they wanted you to spend on their project, and don†™ t communicate anything in the thirty minutes of chin-wagging that couldn†™ t communicated in, oh, three lines of email.”
“The so-called "subprime meltdown" caused a lot of chin-wagging on Capitol Hill in the past month and will continue into next week when Congress holds hearings to publicly scold the industry leaders and discuss ways they can "save" homeowners.”
“In love, they can stay up for hours just chin-wagging.”
“Of course the men were frightfully keen, and it took me all my time to stop them from chin-wagging.”
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War
“Thus, after a long course of lip-moving and chin-wagging on the part of the Proprietor, we read the helpful words: --”
“If you're interested in the media chin-wagging, go here.”
“As the opening ceremonies draw nearer, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky engages in some chin-wagging with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson in Yaletown Wednesday.”
“Too often, speaking generally, Canada gets bogged down in semantics, endlessly chin-wagging about how we should choose something, let alone actually making a decision.”
“I mean, would George Bush and Vlad Putin eating mouldy rice cooked in mud while chin-wagging in a Scottish castle honestly result in decisions that better improved the food available to Africans?”
“The talks, symposia and highbrow chin-wagging will be held at some of Dalston's finest creative hubs, including Rio Cinema, The Vortex, and Cafe Oto.”
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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