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Definition of Small talk
1. Noun. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
Generic synonyms: Chat, Confab, Confabulation, Schmoose, Schmooze
Derivative terms: Chitchat, Chitchat, Chitchat, Gabby, Gossip, Gossipy, Tittle-tattle
Definition of Small talk
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Idle conversation, typically on innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Talk
Literary usage of Small talk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1852)
"He is great in small-talk, and can keep a group of pretty ones on the laugh for
an hour; and it is not at all uncommon to hear him distinguished from some ..."
2. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"He, as well as Madame de Broglie, was a master of all the modish and fashionable
small-talk of Paris. Poor Jean- Jacques was unable to make a figure in this ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The voice of the watercourse supplied the necessary small talk till Learoyd picked
up his story. " But it's none so easy to kill a man like yon. ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1915)
"As one of her proverbs says, by helping herself, indefatigably and with all her
might, she calls down the help of heaven. Current small talk I'm careful ..."
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