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chinwag

Syllables: chin·wagUK/ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/

chinwag noun: an informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.

chinwag: an informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip
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Noun

chinwag (plural chinwags)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.
    • Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
    • Every major network has at least one prime-time newsmagazine, which features extended coverage of gruesome crimes or amazing trials, intimate chinwags with the stars, and exposés of the horrors lurking in your own home, […]2005, Laura Penny, Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 222

Verb

chinwag (third-person singular simple present chinwags, present participle chinwagging, simple past and past participle chinwagged)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) To chat, to gossip.
    • I saw the pair of them chinwagging by the water-cooler.
    • We stamped around to get some circulation into our legs after a stint of three hours in the cold water, had a pull at a bottle of wine, and chinwagged with some of the other fishermen who were clambering out of their waders beside their parked cars.1972 March, Keith Draper, “Big Trout are Suckers after Dark”, in Field & Stream, Los Angeles, Calif.: CBS Magazines, →OCLC, page 161

chinwag meaning in Tamil

chinwag in Tamil

பயனிலா உரையாடல், பயனற்ற பேச்சு

Examples of chinwag in a sentence

  • Hundreds of Reading folk got together for coffee, cake and a good old fashioned chinwag during a national cancer charity's coffee morning fundraiser.2008 September 29, “Raising a cup for Macmillan Cancer”, in Reading Evening Post, Reading, Berkshire: Surrey & Berkshire Media, →OCLC...
  • By the light of the big candles on stakes clusters of people were eating and drinking and chinwagging about the topics of the past four days.1996, Ian Watson, Hard Questions, London: Gollancz, →ISBN:

Forms of chinwag

Noun
pluralchinwags
alternative formchin wag
alternative formchin-wag
Verb
third-person singular presentchinwags
present participlechinwagging
past participlechinwagged
pastchinwagged

Origin of chinwag

From chin + wag.

Questions about chinwag

What does chinwag mean?
Chinwag means an informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.
What is chinwag in Tamil?
Chinwag in Tamil is பயனிலா உரையாடல், பயனற்ற பேச்சு. See Chinwag meaning in Tamil.
How do you use chinwag in a sentence?
Hundreds of Reading folk got together for coffee, cake and a good old fashioned chinwag during a national cancer charity's coffee morning fundraiser.
What part of speech is chinwag?
Chinwag can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce chinwag?
Chinwag is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of chinwag?
The plural of chinwag is chinwags.

Words near chinwag in the dictionary

  1. chintzified
  2. chintzily
  3. chintziness
  4. chintzware
  5. chintzy
  6. chinwag
  7. chinwagged
  8. chinwagger
  9. chinwaggers
  10. chinwaggery
  11. chinwagging

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chinwag (page history and authors); chinwag (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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