- Babblers (coll) - Chatters idly - Engages in small talk - GPS is so unreliable, according to rumour-mongers - Rumours - Those who engage in casual talk about other people - Tittle-tattles
- Followed closely - Hunted stealthily - Pursued persistently - Shadowed journalist in pursuit of small talk - of Stalk - Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.