Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.

synonyms: blether, chin music, prate, prattle.

Roget 588: conversation, interlocution; collocution^†, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.    causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk^†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement^†; tripotage^†, cackle, prittle-prattle^†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village.    conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress etc. (council) 696; powwow [U.S.].    hall of audience, durbar^†.    palaver, debate, logomachy^†, war of words.    gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer etc. (loquacity) 584; interlocutor etc. (spokesman) 582; conversationist^†, dialogist^†.    the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].    ... show more