Old World chat chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
New World chat chat | birds having a chattering call |
yellow-breasted chat Icteria virens | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds |
chat room chatroom | a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) |
talk show chat show | a program during which well-known people discuss a topic or answer questions telephoned in by the audience, in England they call a talk show a chat show |
chat confab confabulation schmooze schmoose | an informal conversation |
d chitchat chithat chit chat small talk gab gabfest gossip tittle-tattle chin wag chin-wag chin wagging chin-wagging causerie b | light informal conversation for social occasions |
familiar familiar spirit | a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard |
companion comrade fellow familiar associate | a friend who is frequently in the company of another, drinking companions, comrades in arms |
familiar | a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support |
chat up | talk to someone with the aim of persuading him |
chat up flirt dally butterfly coquet coquette romance philander mash | talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions, The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries, My husband never flirts with other women |
e chew the fat shoot the breeze chat confabulate confab chitchat chit-chat chatter chaffer natter gossip jaw claver visit eb | talk socially without exchanging too much information, the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze |
familiar intimate | having mutual interests or affections, of established friendship, on familiar terms, pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders |
familiar | well known or easily recognized, a familiar figure, familiar songs, familiar guests |
long-familiar well-known(a) | frequently experienced, known closely or intimately, a long-familiar face, a well-known voice reached her ears |
familiar | within normal everyday experience, common and ordinary, not strange, familiar ordinary objects found in every home, a familiar everyday scene, a familiar excuse, a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences |
conversant(p) familiar(p) | (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly, conversant with business trends, familiar with the complex machinery, he was familiar with those roads |