Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerielight informal conversation for social occasions
(n)gossip, comment, scuttlebutta report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people“the divorce caused much gossip”
(n)gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmongera person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
Verbs
(v)dish the dirt, gossipwag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies“She won't dish the dirt”
(v)chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visittalk socially without exchanging too much information“the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”