Small Talk

Definition: Small Talk

Small Talk

Noun

1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.

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

Synonyms: Small Talk

Conversation

Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village.

Loquacity

Jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk; (converse).

Crosswords: Small Talk

He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

Teach me some basic Jewish small talk! Who's the guy on roof (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I'm incapable of small talk. (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

It's the new small talk. You do it so awfully well (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner)

I'm not here to make small talk. It would be best if you stayed out of Port City (Walking Shadow; writing credit: Robert B. Parker;)

A little small talk, a smile and baby I was stuck (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba)

No substance, just small talk (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Small Talk (1929)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Great Connections: Small Talk and Networking for Businesspeople (reference)

• Monster Pops: Dinner Time, Oh My a Fly, Small Talk (reference)

• Small Talk (reference)

• Small Talk (Blank Book/Journal) (reference)

• Small talk at Wreyland (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Small Talk (reference)

• Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Concept Kitchen Small Talk 5 Language Translator Deluxe (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Etiquette includes small talk before getting into business. (references)

It is considered impolite to begin addressing business topics without taking several minutes for small talk. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

Normal office hours are 9:00 to to 6:00 p.m. Small talk usually precedes discussion of business. (references)

Vietnam

The Vietnamese principal is rarely in the room when the guests arrive and you will be left to make small talk with the other meeting participants until the principal makes his or her entrance. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "small talk": make small talk. Additional references.

Albanian

muhabet (causerie, chat, chin, confabulation, conversation, table talk, talk, visit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محادثة قصيرة, ‏محادثة خفيفة, ‏لغو (chat, chatter, chitchat, crack, logorrhea, loquacity, moonshine, palaver, slipslop, tittle tattle, twitter), ‏حديث تافه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

светски разговор, банален разговор, дребен разговор. (various references)

Czech

spoleèenská konverzace, všední hovor, konverzace (conversation, conversation class, talk), bìžný hovor. (various references)

Finnish

rupattelu (chat). (various references)

French

papotage, menus propos, courts pourparlers, causette, banalités. (various references)

German

Geplauder (chat, chatting, chitchat, gossip). (various references)

Greek 

ψιλοκουβέντα (chit chat). (various references)

Hebrew 

שיחת חולין, שיח�" קל�" (chat, chit chat), פטפוט (babble, chat, chatter, garrulity, prattle), �"ברים בעלמא (nonsense). (various references)

Hungarian

fecsegés (babble, blab, blat, blatter, cackle, chaffering, chat, chatter, clack, clash, driveling, drivelling, gab, gabble, gossiping, jabber, jangle, lip, loquacity, palaver, piffle, prattle, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle), csevegés (chat, chit chat, chit-chat, confabulation, crack, gossip, gossiping, talk). (various references)

Indonesian

buras (chitchat). (various references)

Italian

chiacchiere (cackle, cackles, moonshine, palaver, patter, prittle prattle, scandal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

話話 , 話々 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はなしばなし. (various references)

Manx

mynloayrtys. (various references)

Pig Latin

allsmay alktay.(various references)

Portuguese

conversa fiada (chatter, fiddle-faddle, froth, idle talk). (various references)

Romanian

bârfã (chit chat, gossip). (various references)

Russian 

светский разговор, салонный разговор (smalltalk), легкая беседа. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ćaskanje (chat, chatter, tea-table conversation). (various references)

Spanish

plática (chat, discourse, talk), parloteo (babble, babbling, cackle, chatter, gabble, gossip, prate, prattle, yap), palique (gab), charla de trivialidades, charla (babble, causerie, chat, chatter, chitchat, clack, derision, gab, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, rattle, talk, tattle, tittletattle, yap), banalidades. (various references)

Swedish

småprat (chat, chit chat, confabulation), kallprat. (various references)

Turkish

havadan sudan konuşma (sweet nothings), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chuyện phiếm (chat, confab, prattle). (various references)

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-3 letters: kalams, llamas, tamals.

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