chitchat

Meanings

nounchitchat (countable and uncountable, plural chitchats)

alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of chit-chat.
“What are you doing down here, father?” “Just having a bit of chitchat with your curious creation.” “Right.”
2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (20:06 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Lord Roderick Cravensworth (Steve Coogan)

verbchitchat (third-person singular simple present chitchats, present participle chitchatting, simple past and past participle chitchatted)

present singular third person chitchats · participle present chitchatting · participle past chitchatted · past chitchatted

alternativeAlternative spelling of chit-chat.
We were still chitchatting in the same nothingy vein five minutes later when George opened his bedroom door.
2013, Ali Cronin, Santa Baby, →ISBN

nounlight informal conversation for social occasions

Broader

verbtalk socially without exchanging too much information

Broader

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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