| VERB | communication | chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit | talk socially without exchanging too much information |
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| Meaning | talk socially without exchanging too much information. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit | |
| Narrower | shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone | talk / talk idly or casually and in a friendly way |
| Broader | converse, discourse | carry on a conversation |
| Spanish | charlar, chatear, chat, chismear, confabularse, cotillear, garlar, parlar, parlotear, platicar, visitar | |
| Catalan | confabular-se, conversar, fer un xat, garlar, parlotejar, petar, visitar, xafardejar, xarrar, xatejar, xerrar | |
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