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Gossip   /gˈɑsəp/   Listen
Gossip

noun
1.
Light informal conversation for social occasions.  Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle.
2.
A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people.  Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt.
3.
A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others.  Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger.
verb
(past & past part. gossiped; pres. part. gossiping)
1.
Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies.  Synonym: dish the dirt.
2.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.



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"Gossip" Quotes from Famous Books



... parties came into camp with reports of forays as far as the suburbs of Philadelphia, twenty miles away. Spies, disguised as farmers, returned with stories of visits into the heart of the capital city held by the enemy. This gossip and information, Which the young sentinel picked up bit by bit, he pieced together to make a picture of an invincible, veteran British army, waiting to fall upon the huddled mob of "rebels" at Valley Forge, and sweep them away like chaff. He heard it over and over again, that the Hessians, ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... gossip headquarters of the world. Some years ago the whole town was invaded by a mania for anonymous letter writing, and when the smoke had cleared away few ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard

... are to conclude—as seems reasonable—that there was no gossip current in Rome of the courtesans' supper and the rest, we may assume that there was no knowledge in Rome of such matters; for with knowledge silence would have been impossible. So much being admitted, ...
— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini

... What mean'st thou Aron? Wherefore did'st thou this? Aron. O Lord sir, 'tis a deed of pollicie? Shall she liue to betray this guilt of our's: A long tongu'd babling Gossip? No Lords no: And now be it knowne to you my full intent. Not farre, one Muliteus my Country-man His wife but yesternight was brought to bed, His childe is like to her, faire as you are: Goe packe with them, and giue the mother gold, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... [Laughing.] Ha, ha! you bluster well. Upon my life, You have the tilt-yard jargon to a breath. Pepe, if I should smite you on the cheek— Thus, gossip, thus—[Strikes him.] what ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker


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