gossip

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  1. noun Rumor or talk of a personal, sensational, or intimate nature.
  2. noun A person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts.
  3. noun Trivial, chatty talk or writing.
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  • We find women of all ages sitting stolidly in the baths with handbags, books, needlework or their lapdogs, to the delight and amazement of my companions; this squatting in the baths with the interminable female gossip which is part of the routine is their daily occupation. —  THE BANTAM WAR BOOK SERIES
  • It's perfectly reasonable to stand up for what is written there no matter who the gossip is about. —  Blogger KING
  • I've been trying to change my life, and I don't want to let my faults drag me back into the pool of smoldering invective and gossip which is the political Blogosphere. —  Tools of Renewal
  • This shows the gravity of external sins against charity -- gossip, backbiting, calumny, etc. —  †Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam†
  • It is understood Gary Lineker, the BBC's front man at Augusta, entered the Press Room on Friday where all the gossip was about McIlroy's continuation in the event. —  The Daily Record - Home
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

talk ·  joke ·  scandal ·  speculation ·  amusement ·  chatter ·  anecdote ·  news ·  criticism ·  humor ·  rumors ·  nonsense

Used in the same contextWord Family

gossip:   gossips ·  gossiping ·  gossiped
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English godsib, gossip, godparent, from Old English godsibb : god, god; see god + sibb, kinsman; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English gossyp, gossib, gossyb, godsib, a sponsor, also (only in the later form gossyp) a tattling woman, from Anglo-Saxon godsibb, masculine (plural qodsibbas), a sponsor, literally ‘God-relative,’ related in God, from god, God, + sib (Old Northumbrian plural sibbo), gesib, adjective, related: see sib, adjective and n.
  2. from gossip, n.
 

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/ˈgɑsɪp/
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