table-talk

See also: table talk

English

Noun

table-talk (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of table talk.
   • 1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 33, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:

     [T]hey all came out to supper. […] She was also pleased to see how Gregory toned up the table-talk and skilfully led it away from disagreeable topics.

   • 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC:

     He ate like a starving Eskimo. […] The growing boy evidently did not believe in table-talk when he could use his mouth for more practical purposes.