chitchat(n = noun.communication) causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle - light informal conversation for social occasions;
is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze
Derived form verb chitchat1
chitchat(v = verb.communication) chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
is one way to converse, discourse
Derived forms noun chit chat1, noun chit-chat1, noun chitchat1
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue chitchat; Sam wants to chitchat with Sue
Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [1913 Webster]
N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.