Thesaurus / chitchat
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The fireworks, drinking and amplified chitchat around the smoker — those were all fine.
VEGAN BARBECUE IS CARVING OUT A PLACE IN TRADITIONAL MEAT-SMOKING REGIONSJESS ENGSEPTEMBER 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOn the occasions I opt for in-store shopping instead of curbside pickup, masks make it hard to spark natural chitchat with strangers in stores.
HELP, I’M OBSESSED WITH CHIROPRACTORS ON INSTAGRAMGRACE PERRYAPRIL 21, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEBriggs and company were wary of dating not just because it was new, but also because they felt sure men expected far more than chitchat for their cash by night’s end.
WHEN DATING COULD GET YOU HANDCUFFED … AND NOT IN THE FUN WAYNICK FOURIEZOSMARCH 25, 2021OZYHe urged members to avoid chitchat and any specifics about future actions.
“THIS IS WAR”: INSIDE THE SECRET CHAT WHERE FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS DEVISED THEIR POST-CAPITOL PLANSBY LOGAN JAFFE AND JACK GILLUMJANUARY 28, 2021PROPUBLICAThe idea of flipping Texas A&M and Ohio State did come up and stir some chitchat in the committee room, as chairman Gary Barta, the athletic director at Iowa, said on ESPN.
ALABAMA, NOTRE DAME, CLEMSON AND OHIO STATE STAY AT TOP OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF RANKINGSCHUCK CULPEPPERDECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThis informal chitchat, addressed chiefly to the amateur naturalist, became an easy habit with Jefferies.
THE HILLS AND THE VALERICHARD JEFFERIESI considered it best, however, before doing so, to ease things along with a little informal chitchat.
RIGHT HO, JEEVESP. G. WODEHOUSEI cannot chitchat with Scotchmen while you are at Keswick, childless!
LETTERS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, VOL. I (OF 2)SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe interval before dinner, a tolerably long one, is filled up by pleasant chitchat, chiefly in English.
A TRIP TO CUBAJULIA WARD HOWEThis is the letter that Franklin said was mere chitchat between themselves over the second bottle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; SELF-REVEALED, VOLUME I (OF 2)WILIAM CABELL BRUCEWORDS RELATED TO CHITCHAT
- account
- babble
- back-fence talk
- blather
- blether
- buzz
- calumny
- chatter
- chitchat
- chronicle
- clothesline
- conversation
- cry
- defamation
- dirty laundry
- dirty linen
- dirty wash
- earful
- gossipry
- grapevine
- hearsay
- idle talk
- injury
- malicious talk
- meddling
- news
- prate
- prattle
- report
- rumor
- scandal
- scuttlebutt
- slander
- small talk
- story
- tale
- talk
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
- whispering campaign
- wire
- word
- allusion
- badinage
- banter
- blather
- bombast
- bunk
- buzz
- cant
- chat
- chatter
- chitchat
- conversation
- cry
- gab
- grapevine
- hearsay
- hint
- hot air
- idle talk
- innuendo
- insinuation
- jaw
- jive
- lip
- noise
- nonsense
- palaver
- persiflage
- prose
- racket
- raillery
- report
- rot
- rubbish
- rumble
- rumor
- scuttlebutt
- small talk
- trash
- tête-à-tête
- yarn
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