Dictionary entry

Confabulate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.