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Definition of Chitchatting
1. chitchat [v] - See also: chitchat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chitchatting
Literary usage of Chitchatting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"... go with thee a while;' and off he Goe, chitchatting about Something or nothing,
while I, so backward and timorous with y" faire, be left in y" Lurch. ..."
2. The Gentleman Emigrant: His Daily Life, Sports, and Pastimes in Canada by Stamer, William (1874)
"... are more at home in the stockyard than in the drawing-room, and who prefer
talking wool with the host to chitchatting with the hostess. ..."
3. Beside Still Waters by Maria Luisa Fargion (1992)
"The peasants were amazed to see them going for long walks through the fields and
the woods, talking all the way, chitchatting as if they had everything to ..."
4. The Discourse on the All-Embracing Net of Views: The Brahmajala Sutta and by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Gautama Buddha (1992)
"There, some were playing with their hands, some with their feet, some were
chitchatting, while others slept, their tongues hanging out of their mouths, ..."
5. A World's Fair for the Global Village by Carl Malamud (1997)
"In Washington, he worked in a small book store, spending most of his time reading
and listening to music, the rest chitchatting with the diverse clientele ..."
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