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chitchat

chitchat is the alternative spelling of chit-chat.

Meaning of chit-chat

Noun

chit-chat (countable and uncountable, plural chit-chats)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    chinwag
  2. Gossip.

See all 3 meanings of chit-chat

Forms of chitchat

Noun
pluralchitchats
Verb
third-person singular presentchitchats
present participlechitchatting
past participlechitchatted
pastchitchatted

Questions about chitchat

What is chitchat the alternative spelling of?
Chitchat is the alternative spelling of chit-chat.

Words near chitchat in the dictionary

  1. chitals
  2. chitarrone
  3. chitarrones
  4. chitarronist
  5. chitarronists
  6. chitchat
  7. chitchats
  8. chitchatted
  9. chitchatting
  10. chitchatty
  11. chitenge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chitchat (page history and authors); chit-chat (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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