Colloquial shortening of CONFABULATION; a talk together; familiar talk.
1701. Dial. Marphorio & Pasquin, 8. I’ll … enter into a Confab with you.
1763. T. Jefferson, Corr., Wks. 1859, I. 189. The whole confab I will tell you, word for word.
1789. Wolcott, Subj. for Painters, Wks. 1812, II. 158. In close Confab the gentleman is seen.
1836. Dickens, Lett., III. 4 We must have a confab about this.
1855. Helen Leeson, 7. Frequent expressions of irritation disturbed the whispered confab of the two ladies. Ibid., 173. Can I be admitted to this illustrious confab? Ibid., 360. I left the lovers in close confab.
1888. J. Payn, Myst. Mirbridge, II. iv. I saw Lady Joddrell in close confab with you.
