Gossip
['gɒsɪp] or ['ɡɑsɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; 'the divorce caused much gossip'.
(noun.) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others.
Checked by Jerome--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
(n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
(n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
(n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
(v. t.) To stand sponsor to.
(v. i.) To make merry.
(v. i.) To prate; to chat; to talk much.
(v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tattler, babbler, chatterer, gadabout, idle talker.[2]. Chat, chitchat, tattle, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, small talk, idle talk.
v. n. Chat, tattle, prate, prattle, gabble, clack, cackle, talk idly.
Editor: Miriam
Definition
n. one who runs about telling and hearing news: idle talk: a familiar acquaintance: a boon-companion.—v.i. to run about telling idle tales: to talk much: to chat: (Shak.) to stand godfather to.—n. Goss′iping the act or practice of one who gossips or tattles.—p.adj. having the character of one who gossips: tattling.—n. Goss′ipry.—adj. Goss′ipy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being interested in common gossip, you will undergo some humiliating trouble caused by overconfidence in transient friendships. If you are the object of gossip, you may expect some pleasurable surprise.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Derived either from the Grk. gups, vulture, or Fr. gosier, wind-pipe. Hence, a vulture that tears its prey to bits, or an exercise of the wind-pipe from which every victim gets a blow.
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Examples
- You that should be models of industry are just as gossip-loving as the idle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am at present responsible for his life; it shall not be forfeited for half an hour's idle gossip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He left the smoky, gossip-filled room and went into the back bedroom and sat down on the bed and pulled his boots off. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That is the centre of country gossip. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Brazil, said one gossip to another, with a grin--Brazil is St. John's Wood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As to gossip, you know, sending him away won't hinder gossip. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Out of this question and reply sprang a change in the chat--chat it still remained, easy, desultory, familiar gossip. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In my own neighbourhood, no virtuous female friends would tempt me into dangerous gossiping at the tea-table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If Judy'd been here you'd have sat gossiping till all hours--and you can't even give me five minutes! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But I can't stay gossiping with you fine ladies or I shall lose my place in the stage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He chattered on, with something of the smooth gossiping fluency of former times. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There is no good in gossiping here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So it naturally fell out that Meg got into the way of gadding and gossiping with her friend. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly respectable self. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Your Briarfield gossips are capable of saying that or sillier things. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The winged furies were now prowling gossips who dropped in on each other for tea. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Business it was not--_that_ the gossips agreed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And if you go and tell any of those old gossips in the ship about this thing, I'll never forgive you for it; that's all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The air is full of the story, I know; but gossips will not dare to speak of it to him for the first few days. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is what makes gossips turn out in rain and storm to go and be the first to tell a startling bit of news. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They gossiped together over the corpse, related anecdotes, with embellishments of her lingering decline, and its real or supposed cause. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The school gossiped, the kitchen whispered, the town caught the rumourparents wrote letters and paid visits of remonstrance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She read or worked in leisure hours when the rest gossiped. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They gossiped about the dresses, the music, the illuminations, the fine night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now this lady was a thin, yellow spinster, with a sharp nose and inquisitive eyes, who saw everything and gossiped about all she saw. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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