Crossword clues for chitchat
chitchat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chitchat \Chit"chat\, n. [From Chat, by way of reduplication.] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also chit-chat, 1710, diminishing reduplicated form of chat. The verb is attested from 1821. Related: Chitchatting.
Wiktionary
alt. (alternative spelling of chit-chat English) n. (alternative spelling of chit-chat English) vb. (alternative spelling of chit-chat English)
WordNet
n. light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie]
v. 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, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
[also: chitchatting, chitchatted]
Wikipedia
ChitChat was an open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol. It enabled users to chat with each other over the global Yahoo! chat system. The last version, ChitChat 1.2, had a more refined user interface, speed improvements, Address Book support, IM reformatting, an improved events system, and numerous bug fixes. ChitChat was programmed in the REALBasic programming environment.
Usage examples of "chitchat".
The clothes were better, the food more exotic, the people more serious and aware of their own importance, but all in all the same dynamics applied: polite chitchat, polite laughter, the constant mingling.
The clothes were better, the food more exotic, the people more serious and aware of their own importance, but all in all the same dynamics applied, polite chitchat, polite laughter, the constant mingling.
Your gang was swapping detailed bioscientific chitchat with a team of Comprise that is ostensibly here as engineers and physicists.
Carl Vespa, for all his kindnesses to her, was not one for idle chitchat.
On the other side of a hedge of flaming bougainvillea, she saw and heard pedestrians strolling by, filling the air with pleasant chitchat.
We engaged in idle chitchat until Dolan returned, bearing a tray with my water and two fresh drinks for them.
Had a wire been inadvertently tripped in the dreaded father-daughter territory, or had Jessie plunged haplessly down the rabbit hole of their life together, into the true history hidden away in these unexplored tunnels and warrens beneath the daily chitchat, the habitual sex -- the subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.
About the last thing in the world he wanted to do was hold polite chitchat with this old man.
The spell's power to attract tedious, rambling, unstoppable chitchat was quadrupled when it detected that its victim was in an escape-proof situation, such as a moving vehicle of any kind.
This day, though, he didn't have the patience for chitchat, which was what one could count on getting at Woodley Misc.
I was just reminded that I can't just chitchat or I'll use up my allotted time.
She had known that once the ordinary chitchat was completed he'd ask about Warren.
It's the lingo, the abbreviations, the barnyard to attic chitchat of amateurs with keys, with Marconi coherers or Fessenden barreters-and you can listen for a violin solo pretty soon now.
It's the lingo, the abbreviations, the barnyard to attic chitchat of amateurs with keys, with Marconi coherers or Fessenden barreters-and you can listen for a violin solo pretty soon now.
It had been pretty recently refilled but Fife himself had done that and we'd chitchatted at the time.