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A.Word.A.Day--chinwag chinwag (CHIN-wag) noun Chat, gossip. verb intr. To chat or gossip. [Chin + wag.] "While the other stars were busy in their vans with make-up, scripts or waiting for their mobiles to go beep-beep, she (Lara Dutta) would have a heart-to-heart chinwag with them (crew members)." Madhureeta Mukherjee; Lara Makes 'Masti' Crew Cry!; The Times of India (New Delhi); Feb 25, 2004. "Jolyon Wagg: I'll send you a policy... No, better still, I'll bring it myself. That'll give us a chance to have another chinwag together." Herge; The Calculus Affair; Little Brown & Company; 1997. This week's theme: words for body parts used figuratively. X-Bonus God comes to the hungry in the form of food. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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