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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. light informal conversation for social occasions;
[syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]


VERB (1)

1. talk socially without exchanging too much information;
- Example: "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
[syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chitchat \Chit"chat\, n. [From Chat, by way of reduplication.] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

chit-chat n 1: light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie] v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "chitchat": babble, back-fence gossip, backchat, beauty-parlor chitchat, cackle, chat, chatter, chitter, chitter-chatter, clack, cocktail-party chitchat, gabble, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, idle chat, idle talk, newsmongering, piece of gossip, prattle, small talk, story, table talk, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk, talkee-talkee, tattle, tea-table talk, tittle-tattle