gabbing
Shooting the breeze
Gabbing is talking at length, usually about unimportant matters.
The word suggests casual, friendly chatter rather than serious conversation: We spent the afternoon gabbing on the phone.
Someone who gabs a lot is a gabber, and a session of gabbing is a gabfest.
Exchange of spoken ideas
- chatterLight, rapid speech
- banterPlayful, teasing exchange
- chitchatInformal light conversation
- schmoozeChat to gain favor
palaver · chin-wag · shooting the breeze · small talk · nattering · yakking · confab · rap
Trivial, prolonged speech
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- blatherFoolish, pointless chatter
- rambleMove or speak without direction
- yammerComplain loudly, persistently
yackety-yak · babble · running on · droning · going on and on · motor mouth · waffling · meandering
Inclined to talk much
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- chattyInclined to converse freely
- volubleInclined to talk freely
- mouthyInclined to talk back
blabby · talky · glib · effusive · gregarious · sociable · outgoing · unreserved
Unconfirmed circulating story
- tittle-tattleTrivial, idle chatter
- whisperSpeech without full voice
- buzzContinuous low drone
- hearsayUnverified secondhand information
scoop · dirt · tea · dishing · juicy details · scandal · backbiting · tales
conversation
Exchange of spoken ideas
schmooze · palaver · chin-wag · shooting the breeze · small talk · nattering · yakking · confab · rap · jaw
prattle
Trivial, prolonged speech
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- blatherFoolish, pointless chatter
- rambleMove or speak without direction
yammer · yackety-yak · babble · running on · droning · going on and on · motor mouth · waffling · meandering · windbagging
loquacious
Inclined to talk much
mouthy · blabby · talky · glib · effusive · gregarious · sociable · outgoing · unreserved · verbose
rumor
Unconfirmed circulating story
- tittle-tattleTrivial, idle chatter
- whisperSpeech without full voice
- buzzContinuous low drone
hearsay · scoop · dirt · tea · dishing · juicy details · scandal · backbiting · tales · innuendo
- ways to communicatechat, announcement, gossip, broadcast, small talk
- chatterchat, chatter, chatting, chitchat, chit-chat
- chitchatsmall talk, banter, chitchat, chatter, chat
- slang behaviorsgoofing off, messing around, fooling around, horsing around, slacking
- talkingtalking, chatting, conversing, jabbering, yammering
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
gabbingsilence
Total lack of sound
being silent · keeping quiet · shutting up · saying nothing · keeping mum
gabbinglistening
Attending to sound
paying attention · attending · heeding · absorbing · lending an ear