Confab

Definition: Confab

Confab

Noun

1. An informal conversation.

Verb

1. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze.

2. Have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "confab" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Note: Confab \Con"fab\, noun. [Contr. from confabulation.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Confab

References

• Confab Industrial S/A: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Albanian

bisedoj (chat, confabulate, converse, discourse, have a talk, socialize, speak, talk). (various references)

German

keine besprechung. (various references)

Greek 

κουβέντα (causerie, chat, confabulation, conversation, talk), κουβεντιάζω (chat, confabulate, have a chat, rag, speak, spiel, talk). (various references)

Pig Latin

onfabcay

Turkish

sohbet etmek (chat, commune, confabulate, converse, have a chat, have a talk, socialize), sohbet (causerie, chat, chitchat, confabulation, conversation, gabfest, talk), konuşmak (bespeak, chin, confabulate, discourse, have a talk, have a talk with, have speech with, parley, pipe up, reason, speak, speak to, talk, talk to smb.), hoşbeş (chat, confabulation, gossip, talk). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chuyện tán phét, chuyện phiếm (chat, prattle, small talk). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "confab": confabbed, confabbing, confabs, confabulate, confabulated, confabulates, confabulating, confabulation, confabulations, confabulator, confabulators, confabulatory. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Conaf, conbac, Conefo, confa, confen, Confex, confi, conflab, confu, Conham, tonfa. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bacon, banco.

-2 letters: fano.

-3 letters: abo, ban, boa, cab, can, cob, con, fan, fob, fon, nab, nob, oaf, oca.

-4 letters: ab, an, ba, bo, fa, na, no, of, on.

+1 letter: confabs.

+2 letters: boniface.

+3 letters: bonifaces, confabbed.

+4 letters: beachfront, benefactor, boldfacing, confabbing.

+5 letters: beachfronts, benefaction, benefactors, bifurcation, confabulate, conferrable, confessable, confirmable, confiscable, conformable, conformably, enforceable, fabrication, flamboyance, flamboyancy, forbearance, forbiddance, obfuscating, obfuscation.