chit-chat vs jabber

chit-chat

verb
  • To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters. 

noun
  • Gossip. 

  • Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters. 

jabber

verb
  • To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. 

  • To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble. 

noun
  • Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. 

  • One who or that which jabs. 

  • A kind of hand-operated corn planter. 

  • One who administers a hypodermic injection, especially of a COVID-19 vaccine. 

How often have the words chit-chat and jabber occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )