klatsch

• n. [口语]非正式聚会，茶话会

来自德语Klatsch,闲聊，可能来自拟声词，模仿拍掌的声音。

klatsch (n.)

1953, from German Klatsch "gossip," which is said in German sources to be imitative (compare klatschen "clap hands," klatsch "a single clap of the hands"). Also see clap (v.), which in Middle English also had a sense of "talk noisily or too much, chatter" (late 14c.).