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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. light informal conversation for social occasions;
[syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]


VERB (1)

1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly;
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tittle-tattle \Tit"tle-tat`tle\, n. [A reduplication of tattle.] 1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [R.] --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tittle-tattle \Tit"tle-tat`tle\, v. i. To talk idly; to prate. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tittle-tattle n 1: light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]