confab

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒnfæb/    美 /kənˈfæb/|/kɑn-/|/kɔnˈfæb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Clipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,countable,informal
    — But, Sir, as I am in haſte, we had better refer the Diſpute at preſent—any other Time I am at your Service for a Confab of a few Hours—I ſhall run thro' my Buſineſs with as brief Prolixity as poſſible— [...]
动词 v.
  1. Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal,intransitive
    — [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.

词形变化

confabs plural confabs present,singular,third-person confabbing participle,present confabbed participle,past confabbed past

词源

词源 1
Clipping of confabulation, from Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); see further at etymology 2.
词源 2
Clipping of confabulate, from Latin cōnfābulārī + English -ate (suffix forming verbs with the sense of acting in the specified manner). Cōnfābulārī is the present active infinitive of cōnfābulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + fābulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from fābula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)).
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