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chinwagging

chinwagging is the present participle and gerund of chinwag.

Meaning of chinwag

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.

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Questions about chinwagging

What is chinwagging the present participle and gerund of?
Chinwagging is the present participle and gerund of chinwag.

Words near chinwagging in the dictionary

  1. chinwag
  2. chinwagged
  3. chinwagger
  4. chinwaggers
  5. chinwaggery
  6. chinwagging
  7. chinwags
  8. Chinwangtao
  9. chiny chin chin
  10. chiny chin chins
  11. Chinyang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chinwagging (page history and authors); chinwag (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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