chin wagging
- noun
- UK
:
charlas
- The two friends spent hours chin wagging at the coffee shop.
Examples
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She enjoys a bit of chin wagging with her neighbors every morning.
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After dinner, we had some chin wagging on the porch.
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After the meeting, there was a lot of chin wagging in the hallway.
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They enjoyed a bit of chin wagging over coffee.
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After the meeting, there was a lot of chin wagging in the hallway.
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She enjoys a bit of chin wagging with her neighbors every morning.
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The two friends spent hours chin wagging at the coffee shop.
Synonyms
65
2.1
Polite short talk about simple topics like the weather
28
2.0
Friendly, light talk about unimportant things
12
7.1
A short friendly talk between people
9
2.8
Short friendly talk about unimportant things
1
5.8
Casual talk about small, unimportant things, often gossip
1
9.9
Talk that is useless and does not help
1
8.4
A friendly relaxed chat between people, often over coffee
1
8.2
A long friendly talk that people use to persuade or catch up
1
9.9
Loud, silly talk that has no useful meaning
Light informal chat between people to enjoy themselves
A friendly informal chat between people who know each other
Light informal talk among people at social or literary gatherings
To talk in a relaxed way about nothing important
Light, silly talk about other people
Light friendly talk about small unimportant things, often gossip
Light talk about unimportant, silly things people say
Antonyms
How Casual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination evokes the image of a chin moving (wagging) while someone talks, so a learner who knows 'chin' and 'wag' can plausibly infer it refers to talking or chatting. However the idiomatic, colloquial nuance (light, social chat) and the fixed lexicalised form 'chin wag(ging)' are not fully predictable from the parts alone, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase chin wagging may come from the image of someone moving their chin as they talk, like a dog wagging its tail when it is excited. That's why it now means 'chatting' or light, friendly talk.