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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confabulate \Con*fab"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Confabulated}; p. pr & vb n. {Confabulating}.] [L.
confabulatus p. p. of confabulary to converse together;
con- + fabulary to speak, fr fabula. See {Fable}.]
To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds
confabulate or no --Cowper.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
confabulate
v 1: chew the fat; shoot the breeze [syn: {chat}, {confab}, {chitchat},
{chatter}, {chaffer}, {natter}, {gossip}, {jaw}, {claver},
{visit}]
2: have a conference in order to talk something over [syn: {confer},
{confab}, {consult}]
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