chinwag
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chinwag
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Down at Fort Lauderdale two weeks ago, at the squad's pre-tournament camp at Inter Miami's training centre, Clarke came over to the pitch-side media - unexpectedly - for a wee chinwag.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
It got quite deep for a glitzy award show chinwag.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
Is it a grand intellectual battle, or just an insiders’ chinwag?
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
My first comment today concerns not the comments of the other contributors to this Slate chinwag, but rather Linda Greenhouse’s New York Times op-ed Thursday about the Supreme Court’s cellphone decision, Riley v.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2014
On one occasion I remember sitting with Phil Neville for a chinwag and, like a typical footballer, ranting about a team-mate of mine who I found annoying at the time.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013
Amid all the chinwagging and finger-pointing this week about assorted inclusions and exclusions in England's pre-World Cup squad, one man whose non-selection has provoked no controversy whatsoever is the Bolton striker Kevin Davies.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2010
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