Search results
- Dictionarybavardage/ˌbavɑːˈdɑːʒ/
noun
- 1. idle gossip: "a bore whose"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
: small talk, chitchat. Word History. Etymology. French, from bavarder to gossip, chatter (from Middle French, from bavard chatterbox, from bave slobber, from—assumed—Vulgar Latin bava) + -age. Love words?
bavardage. View usage for: Source: Google Books Ngram Viewer. Literary idle chattering.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
bavardage. noun. chit-chat [noun] (informal) an informal conversation about unimportant matters; gossip. idle chit-chat. gossip [noun] a chat. She dropped in for a cup of coffee and a gossip. (Translation of bavardage from the PASSWORD French-English Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
[bavaʀdaʒ ] masculine noun. 1. (entre amis, collègues) chatter (no pl) 2. (= indiscrétion) gossip (no pl) Collins French-English Dictionary © by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Examples of 'bavardage' in a sentence. bavardage. Example sentences from the Collins Corpus.
Define bavardage. bavardage synonyms, bavardage pronunciation, bavardage translation, English dictionary definition of bavardage. n literary idle chattering Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003,...
Jun 2, 2024 · Noun. [ edit] bavardage m (plural bavardages) chatter, natter, banter (insignificant talk) [ edit] bavarder. bavardeur. Further reading. [ edit] “ bavardage ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Translation for 'bavardage' in the free French-English dictionary and many other English translations.
OED's earliest evidence for bavardage is from 1835, in the writing of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer and politician. bavardage is a borrowing from French. See etymology
These are words and phrases related to bavardage. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page.
bavardage translation in French - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'bavard, bavarder, bavure, bravade', examples, definition, conjugation.