lakırdı
1. remark; word. 2. conversation, talk. 3. empty words, hot air, nothing but talk. --yı ağzında çiğnemek to beat around the bush. -- ağzından dökülmek to say something unwillingly, spit it out slowly. --sı ağzında kalmak to be unable to finish what one was saying; (for someone) suddenly to go silent. -- altında kalmamak to give as good as one gets (in an argument). --yı ağzına tıkamak /ın/ to shut (someone) up. --ya boğmak /ı/ to drown (a topic) in a flood of words. -- çıkarmak to spread gossip, be a gossipmonger; to spread rumors. --ya dalmak to become lost in conversation. -- etmek 1. /la/ to talk (with), chat (with). 2. /ı/ to gossip about (something). --sını etmek /ın/ to talk about (something). --yı ezip büzmek to hem and haw, beat around the bush. -- karıştırmak to change the subject quickly. -- kavafı chatterbox. --sı mı olur? colloq. Don´t mention it!/It´s a pleasure! (said to someone for whom one has done or wishes to do a favor). -- taşımak to retail gossip. --ya tutmak /ı/ to engage (someone) in conversation (thus making him stop what he´d been doing). -- yetiştirmek 1. to reply quickly and in kind, promptly to give as good as one gets. 2. /a/ (for a child) to talk back to, sass (an older person).