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Summer29 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Word gab. Do yo often use it?

Hello everyone,

Could you please help me? I am not a native speaker and I have a task to find more information about word “gab” meaning :
idle or trivial talk
to talk in a rapid or thoughtless manner

I made a research on the Internet and found out that this word is not used very often, except for phrases:
gift of the gab
stop your gab

Can it be also used in phrases like:
let’s gab – let’s talk
do you want to gab – do you want to talk

I understand that it probably will be sound odd and the context is also very important, but I need to be sure that this phrase can exist.

Also does this word have a vulgar, insulting or other negative tone?

Thank you very much for your help
  

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Summer29 Can it be also used in phrases like:let’s gab – let’s talk do you want to gab – do you want to talk It's not natural. These are more common. Let's chit-chat.

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  • Summer29 Can it be also used in phrases like:let’s gab – let’s talk do you want to gab – do you want to talk It's not natural.
  • These are more common.
  • Let's chit-chat.
  • Let's gossip.
  • Perhaps the closest with "gab" is: Let's have a gabfest.
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Summer29Can it be also used in phrases like:let’s gab – let’s talk do you want to gab – do you want to talk
It's not natural. These are more common.
Let's chit-chat.
Let's gossip.

Perhaps the closest with "gab" is:
Let's have a gabfest.

Do you want to talk - this is something serious, not idle chatter.
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