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chinwags

chinwags is the plural of chinwag.

Meaning of chinwag

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

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Forms of chinwags

alternative formchin wags
alternative formchin-wags

Questions about chinwags

What is chinwags the plural of?
Chinwags is the plural of chinwag.

Words near chinwags in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chinwags (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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