1. Light informal conversation for social occasions
   "The neighbours had a friendly chinwag over the garden fence";
   - chitchat [informal], chit-chat [informal], chit chat [informal], small talk, gab [informal], gabfest [N. Amer, informal], gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag [Brit, informal], chin-wagging [Brit, informal], causerie, bavardage [literary]

1. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and chinwagging";
   - chew the fat [informal], shoot the breeze [N. Amer, informal], chat, confabulate, confab [informal], chitchat [informal], chit-chat [informal], chatter, chaffer, natter [informal], gossip, jaw [informal], claver [UK, dialect], visit [N. Amer, informal], gas [informal], chew the rag [informal], gab [informal]

Derived forms: chinwags, chinwagging, chinwagged, chin-wags

Type of: chat, confab [informal], confabulation, converse, discourse, natter [informal], schmoose [informal], schmooze [informal]

Encyclopedia: Chinwag