Idle Talk

Definition: Idle Talk

Idle Talk

Noun

1. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.

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

Multilingual Slang

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

Synonyms: Idle 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.

Crosswords: Idle Talk

Albanian

muhabet kot (gab, guff). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلام فارغ (balderdash, bosh, bunk, drivel, empty talk, fiddle-faddle, nonsense, poppycock, prattle, twaddle), ‏كلام بدون فائدة, ‏حديث فارغ (idle gossip). (various references)

Czech

plané řeèi. (various references)

Finnish

tyhjää puhetta, turhaa jaaritusta (nonsense), suunsoitto (gabble), loru (babble), lörpötys (babble), kulkupuhe (hearsay). (various references)

French

paroles oiseuses, paroles en l'air. (various references)

German

leeres Gerede (bluster, cant, hot air), Geschwätz (bunk, drivel, flubdub, gab, gossip, gossiping, jaw, palaver, prattle, rigmarole, tittle tattle). (various references)

Hebrew 

להגנות (prattle), דברים בטלים (idle gossip, trivia). (various references)

Hungarian

puszta beszéd. (various references)

Italian

ciancia (babble, nonsense, rubbish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雑談　 (chatting), 雑談 (chatting), 閑談 (quiet conversation), 無駄話 (chat, gossip), 無駄口 (chatter), お喋り (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, chitchat, gossip, talk, talkative). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしゃべり (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, chitchat, gossip, talk, talkative), ざつだん (chatting), かんだん (chat, constantly, continuously, heat and cold, pleasant talk, quiet conversation, temperature), むだぐち (chatter), むだばなし (chat, gossip). (various references)

Pig Latin

idleay alktay.(various references)

Portuguese

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

Russian 

пустые разговоры, пустая болтовня (guff, hot, lip-labour, palaver, rigmarole). (various references)

Scottish

pràcais. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preklapanje (overlap). (various references)

Spanish

charla insustancial. (various references)

Swedish

tomt prat (blither, buncombe, gossip). (various references)

Turkish

yersiz konuşma, gereksiz konuşma, boşboğazlık (babble, garrulity, indiscretion, tattle), boş konuşma. (various references)

Welsh

clebar (chatter, gossip, tattle). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tallied.

-2 letters: allied, detail, dilate, killed, kilted, lilted, tailed, taille, talked, talkie, telial, tilled.

-3 letters: ailed, alike, dealt, delta, ideal, ileal, kited, ladle, laked, lated, latke, liked, telia, tidal, tilak, tilde, tiled.

-4 letters: adit, aide, alit, dale, date, deal, deil, deli, dell, delt, dial, diel, diet, dike, dill, dita, dite, edit, idea, idle, ikat.

+1 letter: adultlike.

+3 letters: blacklisted.