smalltalk

Alternative form of small talk.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of small talk.
    • It’s a bit difficult making smalltalk with a teacher, especially when they have to crane their neck to look up at you. - 1996, Siobhán Parkinson, Sisters … No Way! (Cindy’s Diary), Dublin: The O’Brien Press, published...
    • Hannah pictured Mark and herself sitting smiling over a stiff white tablecloth and single, interview-appropriate glasses of wine, making smalltalk and pretending everything was fine, that they were an ordinary happy...
    • “Don,” she said, and pushed the hair back from her eyes with an irritated sweep of her hand, “if the health of my toads is your idea of smalltalk while we work then I think I’d rather you just kept quiet, if it’s all...