Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of news; informative.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of news; gossipy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective colloq. Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Containing lots of news; informative.
  • adjective Chatty, gossipy.
  • noun informal A distributor of news; a newsagent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective full of news
  • adjective prone to friendly informal communication

Etymologies

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news +‎ -y

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