The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confabulate \Con*fab"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confabulating.] [L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. fabul
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See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of confabulate English)
Usage examples of "confabulating".
There may simply have been a blank space there between the sound and the light, and she was confabulating something to fill it.
Being able to tell whether people are telling the truth or confabulating is what I do for a living, but I honestly thought—his body language, the irrelevant details.
You're not only confabulating, you aren't paying attention to what you're doing, she thought, turning the key in the ignition.
You're confabulating, she told herself sternly, and ran up the stairs to Peds.
The more so (if you have the gossips' keen scent of a deduction) since Lord Fleetwood and young Lord Cressett and the Jesuit Lord Feltre have been seen confabulating with very sacerdotal countenances indeed.
Lenz tells Green the plots of several books he's read, confabulating them.
The Lord thinks he is confabulating, but the Eclipse part of it has his interest.
He was probably confabulating his childhood home with other places he'd only visited.