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How to pronounce chitchat in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle
Type of chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze
Type Words
Synonyms chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit
Type of converse, discourse
Has types jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze
Derivation chit chat, chit-chat

Examples of chitchat

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It is fun to stand around the fire and chitchat with people you don't even know.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Then everyone files out for dinner and chitchat with other parents and teachers.
From the denverpost.com
Painful chitchat on a train is one thing, but workplace TMI is its own monster.
From the cnn.com
My words broke up sometimes, and my chitchat came across as shaky or quivering.
From the washingtonpost.com
As we resumed our travel, there was decidedly less chitchat among the passengers.
From the newsobserver.com
The first segment, free of jokes or chitchat, focused on Libya, Iraq and al-Qaeda.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Some of the hopefuls sat silent, while others broke the tension with chitchat.
From the nytimes.com
The battlefield he returned to involved wine, fine china and polite chitchat.
From the al.com
Other activities on the agenda should leave us too engaged for idle chitchat.
From the boston.com
More examples
  • Chew the fat: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  • Light informal conversation for social occasions
  • ChitChat was an open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol. It enabled users to chat with each other over the global Yahoo! chat system. The last version, ChitChat 1. ...