chit-chat
chit-chat noun: light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
Noun
chit-chat (countable and uncountable, plural chit-chats)
- Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
- He speaks rapidly, with clarity and with obvious enthusiasm. No time is wasted on idle chit-chat.2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50
- “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)
- Synonyms:
- chinwag
- Gossip.
Verb
chit-chat (third-person singular simple present chit-chats, present participle chit-chatting, simple past and past participle chit-chatted)
- To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.
chit-chat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
chit-chat in Hindi
- chit-chat
- गप gap, गपशप gapśap
chit-chat in Tamil
- சிற்றுரையாடல், நேரப்போக்குப் பேச்சு, இன்ப உரையாடல், வம்பளப்பு
chit-chat in Urdu
- chit-chat
- گپ gap, گپ شپ gap-śap
chit-chat in Malayalam
- small talk, chat, chatting
- സല്ലാപം, സൊള്ളൽ, സൊറ, സൊറപറച്ചിൽ, ലഘുസംഭാഷണം, വെടിപറച്ചിൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- chit-chat in Nepali
- गफ gaph
Synonyms of chit-chat
Forms of chit-chat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chit-chats |
| alternative form | chitchat |
| alternative form | chit chat |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chit-chats |
| present participle | chit-chatting |
| past participle | chit-chatted |
| past | chit-chatted |
Origin of chit-chat
Reduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc.
Questions about chit-chat
- What does chit-chat mean?
- Chit-chat means light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
- What is chit-chat in Hindi?
- Chit-chat in Hindi is गप (gap), गपशप (gapśap). See Chit-chat meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chit-chat?
- Chit-chat can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of chit-chat?
- The plural of chit-chat is chit-chats.
Words near chit-chat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chit-chat (page history and authors); गप (Hindi) (page history and authors); chit-chat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گپ (Urdu) (page history and authors); chit-chat (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); गफ (Nepali) (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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