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confab

con·fab

UK/ˈkɒnfæb/ US/kənˈfæb/ uncommon informal
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

verb

1.

talk socially without exchanging too much information

  • “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”
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2.

have a conference in order to talk something over

  • “We conferred about a plan of action”
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Origin

Clipping of confabulate, from Latin cōnfābulārī + English -ate (suffix forming verbs with the sense of acting in the specified manner). Cōnfābulārī is the present active infinitive of cōnfābulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + fābulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from fābula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)).

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