Definition of kaffeeklatsch in English:
kaffeeklatsch
nounˈkafeɪˌklatʃˈkæfeɪˌklætʃ
another term for klatch
Example sentencesExamples
- It's more kaffeeklatsch among the reporters arriving at 8: 30 to claim their seats than circus.
- But can he connect one-on-one with voters in New Hampshire kaffeeklatsches?
- I first came across this when there was a group of middle-aged women using the ultra-hip word.com bulletin boards as a kind of online kaffeeklatsch.
- Town halls are one thing, but you can keep your catch-and-release handshake, your dandled baby, your pale-brew kaffeeklatsch.
- In Davos, 3,000 CEOs of the world's biggest companies, political leaders, leading academics, assorted opinion-makers, media and hangers-on gathered for the great globalization kaffeeklatsch known as the World Economic Forum.
- Appearances at coffee shops and kaffeeklatsches have symbolic import, and hardworking office holders are still sometimes seen at town meeting-type events.
- The first Kaffeeklatsch meeting of the spring 2008 semester is on Tuesday, February 5th.
Origin
German, from Kaffee 'coffee' + Klatsch 'gossip'.
Definition of kaffeeklatsch in US English:
kaffeeklatsch
nounˈkæfeɪˌklætʃˈkafāˌklaCH
1An informal social gathering at which coffee is served.
Example sentencesExamples
- In Davos, 3,000 CEOs of the world's biggest companies, political leaders, leading academics, assorted opinion-makers, media and hangers-on gathered for the great globalization kaffeeklatsch known as the World Economic Forum.
- It's more kaffeeklatsch among the reporters arriving at 8: 30 to claim their seats than circus.
- I first came across this when there was a group of middle-aged women using the ultra-hip word.com bulletin boards as a kind of online kaffeeklatsch.
- Appearances at coffee shops and kaffeeklatsches have symbolic import, and hardworking office holders are still sometimes seen at town meeting-type events.
- The first Kaffeeklatsch meeting of the spring 2008 semester is on Tuesday, February 5th.
- But can he connect one-on-one with voters in New Hampshire kaffeeklatsches?
- Town halls are one thing, but you can keep your catch-and-release handshake, your dandled baby, your pale-brew kaffeeklatsch.
- 1.1 Talking or gossip at an informal gathering where coffee is served.
Example sentencesExamples
- I was talking with Allen Ginsberg over kaffeeklatsch some time in the late 80's the first time I heard the mention of Charles Plymell.
Origin
German, from Kaffee ‘coffee’ + Klatsch ‘gossip’.