Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Casual conversation; small talk.
- n. Gossip.
- v. To engage in small talk or gossip.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Familiar or careless talk or conversation; prattle; gossip.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. light informal conversation for social occasions
- n. light informal conversation for social occasions
- v. talk socially without exchanging too much information
- v. talk socially without exchanging too much information
- n. light informal conversation for social occasions
Etymologies
- Reduplication of chat.
Examples
“More to the point, one wonders whether this sort of chitchat is really authentic enough to justify its dullness.”
“He has things to do before he takes the field against the archrival Dodgers, and idle chitchat is not one of them.”
“Tokyo architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein hit on the antidote to presentation overload - a style they dubbed pecha-kucha, Japanese for "chitchat" - and their elegant solution is taking the world by storm.”
“They only had a few phone conversations, described as "chitchat".”
“Asked about what he called his "chitchat" with the queen, he says only: "It's a secret between me and mum.”
“GupShup (Hindi for "chitchat") launched three years ago to offer two kinds of messaging services.”
“GupShup Hindi for "chitchat" launched three years ago to offer two kinds of messaging services.”
“Her tidy home was always (and is still) the place to go for "chitchat," a "cookie party" or a cold "Coke float" on a hot summer day.”
“She felt obligated to make some kind of chitchat, however desultory.”
In a Strange City
“That their chitchat is a modern version of the fraudulent showbiz crap I was expected to do forty years ago in Mike Douglas’s gazebo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chitchat’.
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 189 more...
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Satisfyingly reduplicative words
flimflam, dillydally, fimblefamble, chitchat, teeter totter, gewgaw, hip hop, criss cross, king kong, rickrack, knickknack, shilly shally and 5 more...
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