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Confab

verb
1.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.
2.
Have a conference in order to talk something over.  Synonyms: confabulate, confer, consult.





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"Confab" Quotes from Famous Books



... up all the cherries in all the gardens around here, and not one of the thieves received the slightest harm. We will, I think, begin our work immediately, and make a nice soft bed for our young to rest in when we shall be so happy as to have any.' This, I am sure, was the result of their confab, for directly they began to pick up hay, and furze, and feathers, and every soft thing they could find, and ...
— What the Animals Do and Say • Eliza Lee Follen
... was a jangling confab which was almost a riot. Two or three, and among them the man who wanted us to show our map, openly counseled violence. We were but two, and there were by this time a dozen against us, with more coming up the gulch. They could have rushed us easily—at some little cost of life, maybe—but ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... alarms would have increased. But the letter with one violent push had sent her to the top of the golden moment again. She was poised there firmly; it would take more than the sight of Mayer in casual confab with a woman to dislodge her. He knew many people, went to many places; she was proud of his social progress. So undisturbed was she that as she walked to the theatre she smiled to herself, a sly, soft smile. How surprised the lady would be if she knew that the shabby girl unnoticed on ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner


Words linked to "Confab" :   chin wagging, chin-wagging, gabfest, gab, conversation, shmooze, tittle-tattle, chin wag, converse, small talk, claver, discuss, talk over, chin-wag, discourse, chit chat, shmoose, collogue, hash out, causerie, jawbone


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