Confabulate v. i. (past & past part. confabulated; pres. part. confabulating) To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. "I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no."
... confused and hesitating, went to confabulate with his men, and returned some time after with eight of them, while the bulk of his force galloped away in the ... — An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor