chinwag
/ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub."
- "Every major network has at least one prime-time newsmagazine, which features extended coverage of gruesome crimes or amazing trials, intimate chinwags with the stars, and exposés of the horrors lurking in your own home, […]"
- "Hundreds of Reading folk got together for coffee, cake and a good old fashioned chinwag during a national cancer charity's coffee morning fundraiser."
- ""I have a bone to pick with you and I can't possibly nap until we've had a jolly good chin-wag about it." / "Chin-wag?" / "A powwow. A council of war.""
- "I saw the pair of them chinwagging by the water-cooler."
- "We stamped around to get some circulation into our legs after a stint of three hours in the cold water, had a pull at a bottle of wine, and chinwagged with some of the other fishermen who were clambering out of their waders beside their parked cars."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/