bavardage
/ˌbavɑːˈdɑːʒ
/ /bavaʀdaʒ/noun [mass noun]
Idle gossip: a bore whose bavardage could easily unsettle one’s reason...
- Such bavardage (foolish chatter) is not getting us anywhere; this is supposed to be a review of the past 12 months of football madness.
- Thus, the public - and the academy - is assaulted with abstract social work or political bavardage that is alien, irrelevant, and unreal.
Origin
French, from bavarder 'to chatter', from bavard 'talkative', from bave 'drivel'.
- you know
- you know something (or what)?
- you-know-who (or you-know-what)
- you'll
- you may (or might) as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- you must be (or have to be) joking
- you must be (or have to be) kidding
- you name it
- you never know
- young
- young adult
- young adult offender
- Young America
- Young, Andrew
- young at heart
- youngberry
- young blood
- young-born
- Young, Brigham
- Young, Cy
- Young dewberry
- young-earth
- young-earth creationism
- young-earth creationist
- young-earther