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chastity n. purity, continence, virginity, maidenhood, maidenhead,
virtue, celibacy, abstinence, abstention, abstemiousness,
restraint, self-restraint, forbearance: She was a nun and had
taken a vow of chastity.
chat n. 1 conversation, colloquy, talk, small talk, gossip, palaver,
chit-chat, tˆte-…-tˆte, heart-to-heart, Colloq gab, Chiefly Brit
chin-wag, confab, Brit witter, natter, US and Canadian rap,
gabfest, bull session: We'd get together for a chat every now
and then.
--v. 2 converse, gossip, talk, chit-chat, Colloq gab, chew the
fat or the rag, jaw, Brit witter, natter; Slang US and Canadian
rap, bullshit: We were just chatting when I smelt something
burning. 3 Brit chat up. flirt or dally with, persuade, induce,
prevail upon, tempt, lure, entice, inveigle, seduce,
proposition: Rick chats up every girl he meets.
chatter v. 1 prattle, gabble, jabber, prate, patter, gibber, cackle,
jibber-jabber, Brit chaffer, Colloq gab, jaw, Brit natter,
witter, rabbit on or away, waffle: He just kept chattering on
about nothing. 2 clatter, rattle: It was so cold my teeth were
chattering.
--n. 3 prattle, prate, patter, gossip, cackle, jabbering,
chattering: I don't want to hear any more chatter in the
library.
cheap adj. 1 inexpensive, low-priced, bargain-priced, low-cost,
sale-priced, cut-price, reasonable; economy, budget(-priced):
He was chewing on a cheap cigar. Everything used to be a lot
cheaper when I was younger. 2 economical; reduced: Eggs are
cheaper by the dozen. 3 shoddy, base, shabby, tawdry, sleazy,
tatty, seedy; inferior, low-grade, poor, second-rate, trashy,
worthless, Brit twopenny or tuppenny; Colloq tacky, Brit tinpot,
Slang US two-bit, lousy, chintzy: Those cheap pictures ruin the
look of the place. 4 stingy, miserly, penurious, niggardly,
penny-pinching, cheese-paring, frugal, tight, tight-fisted,
Scrooge-like, skinflinty: That cheap brother of yours wouldn't
give even a penny to a beggar.
--adv. 5 inexpensively, cheaply, for a song, Brit for twopence
or tuppence: You can buy those cheap from any street vendor. 6