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"text": "He had actually argued and \"confabbed\" with a strange jeweller, and he had asked him questions about his wife; his delicate little Hélène!",
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"ref": "1987, Peter Bowen, chapter 26, in Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout, New York, N.Y.: Open Road Media, published 2013",
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"text": "Soom after the Illinois governor won the 1952 Democratic Party nomination, [Harry] Golden fired off several witty memos to Stevenson [i.e., Adlai Stevenson II], who in turn invited him to come to Springfield for a campaign speech-writing confab.",
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"2": "la",
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"2": "for",
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"present"
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"extra": "to speak casually with somebody; to chat",
"word": "confabulate"
}
],
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"English informal terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
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"ref": "1826, [John Galt], chapter XXVI, in The Last of the Lairds: Or, The Life and Opinions of Malachi Mailings, Esq. of Auldbiggings, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 230",
"text": "[T]o mak conquests o' bits o' lasses, ye would hae been sitting in your forlorn chair, confabbing wi' Jock, about whether by rope, or gun, was the easiest way o' deeing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1878 November, “Two Handsome People; Two Jealous People; and a Ring!”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume LIV, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers; Paris: Galignani, published March 1870, →OCLC, chapter II, page 398",
"text": "He had actually argued and \"confabbed\" with a strange jeweller, and he had asked him questions about his wife; his delicate little Hélène!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Peter Bowen, chapter 26, in Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout, New York, N.Y.: Open Road Media, published 2013",
"text": "We had a cold supper, and then Bill and me walked out on the prairie, to confab a little about what was ahead.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”)."
],
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"confabulate",
"confabulate#English"
],
[
"speak",
"speak"
],
[
"casually",
"casually"
],
[
"chat",
"chat#Verb"
]
],
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"(intransitive, informal) Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”)."
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "confable"
}
],
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"alt-of",
"clipping",
"informal",
"intransitive"
]
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkɒnfæb/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kənˈfæb/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kɑn-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kɔnˈfæb/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æb"
},
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