资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Confabulate \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.