Synonyms of the word

tittle-tattle

• n. petty, idle gossip.
• n. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
• v. to engage in such gossip.
• v. to spread gossip.

blab

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• n. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

blabber

• v. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
• v. To blab; to let out a secret.
• v. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.
• n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

causerie

• n. An informal conversation, or casual short written article, especially on a serious topic.

chat

• v. To be engaged in informal conversation.
• v. To talk more than a few words.
• v. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
• v. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face…
• n. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
• n. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
• n. (totum pro parte, always with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a…
• n. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face…
• n. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae…
• n. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• n. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• n. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
• n. Alternative form of chaat.

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

chin-wag

• n. Alternative spelling of chinwag.

chitchat

• n. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.
• v. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.

clack

• n. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway…
• n. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
• n. Clatter; prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
• v. (Britain) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

confab

• v. To speak casually with; to chat.
• n. A casual talk or chat.

confabulation

• n. A casual conversation; a chat.
• n. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

gab

• n. Idle chatter.
• n. The mouth or gob.
• n. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
• v. (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.

gabble

• v. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
• v. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
• n. Confused or unintelligible speech.

gabfest

• n. (slang) an occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length.

gibber

• n. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
• v. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
• n. A boulder, a stone.
• n. A balky horse.

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

maunder

• v. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
• v. To wander or walk aimlessly.
• n. (obsolete) A beggar.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

palaver

• n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
• n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
• n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
• n. (informal) Disagreement.
• v. To discuss with much talk.

piffle

• n. Nonsense, foolish talk.
• v. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
• v. To waste, to fritter away.
• v. (dated) To be squeamish or delicate.

prate

• n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• v. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

prattle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
• n. Silly, childish, talk; babble.

schmoose

• v. Alternative spelling of schmooze.

schmooze

• v. To talk casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
• n. A casual conversation, especially one held in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

tattle

• v. (intransitive, pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip…
• v. (intransitive) To chatter.
• n. A tattletale.
• n. Gossip; idle talk.

twaddle

• n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
• v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.