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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trivial talk, often incessant |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, prattle, ranting, tattling |
| Antonyms: | quiet, sense, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about others; rumor |
| Synonyms: | account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, whispering campaign, wire |
| Antonyms: | fact |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backtalk |
| Synonyms: | boasting, braggadocio, bragging, cheek, empty talk, freshness, gas*, guff, hot air, idle talk, impudence, insolence, lip, rudeness, sass, sauce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prattle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, burble, chatter, chit-chat, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, ranting, small talk, tattling, trivial talk, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | small talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chit-chat |
| Synonyms: | babble, beauty-parlor chitchat, blab, blather, casual conversation, chat, chatter, chitchat, chitchat, conversation, gab, gossip, idle chat, idle chatter, idle talk, jabber, light talk, pleasantry, polite remark, prattle, rumors, table talk, trivial conversation, yakking |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz*, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, conversation, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, hot air, idle talk, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense*, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, report, rot*, rubbish*, rumble*, rumor, scuttlebutt, small talk, trash*, tête-à-tête, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twaddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | BS, babble, balderdash, baloney, bull, bunk, chatter, crap, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idle talk, jive, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, stultiloquence, trash*, tripe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning, report |
| Synonyms: | babble, clue, cue, gossip, hint, hot air, idle talk, inkling, intimation, notice, rumor, suggestion, talk, tidings, whisper |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
| Main Entry: | hot air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
| Synonyms: | big talk, blah-blah-blah, bunk, gas, idle talk, wind |
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