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gossip
[ gos-uhp ]
noun
- idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others:
the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
Synonyms: chitchat, palaver, hearsay, small talk
- light, familiar talk or writing.
- Also gossiper, gossipper. a person given to tattling or idle talk.
Synonyms: rumormonger, chatterer
- Chiefly British Dialect. a godparent.
- Archaic. a friend, especially a woman.
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly British Dialect. to stand godparent to.
- Archaic. to repeat like a gossip.
gossip
/ ˈɡɒsɪp /
noun
- casual and idle chat
to have a gossip with a friend
- a conversation involving malicious chatter or rumours about other people
a gossip about the neighbours
- Also calledgossipmonger a person who habitually talks about others, esp maliciously
- light easy communication
to write a letter full of gossip
- archaic.a close woman friend
verb
- introften foll byabout to talk casually or maliciously (about other people)
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Derived Forms
- ˈgossiper, noun
- ˈgossipy, adjective
- ˈgossipingly, adverb
- ˈgossiping, nounadjective
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Other Words From
- gos·sip·ing·ly adverb
- in·ter·gos·sip verb intergossiped or intergossipped intergossiping or intergossipping
- un·gos·sip·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gossip1
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Example Sentences
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
“Women go to the bathroom together and gossip, talk and argue all the time,” Vithi Cuc told The National.
Since I was toiling away at the time as a gossip columnist for The Washington Post, I immediately called him back.
And they sound like gulls, you know, when they sit and gossip in a bar together.
The mayor and Biasi are a popular topic of gossip in Matamoros.
He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.
He returned to the hotel, and, eluding a gossip-seeking landlady, went up to his room.
He talked a good deal on various topics, a little politics, some city news and neighborhood gossip.
In spite of the character bestowed upon her by her old friend, Mrs. Barford dearly loved a bit of gossip.
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