gossip
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːsɪp/
- Offensive
:
chismoso
- Everyone knows that Jenny is the town's biggest gossip, always sharing the latest rumors.
Yeah, I'd be the Gossip Girl of Thames, New Zealand stream.
- Yeah, I'd be the Gossip Girl of Thames, New Zealand stream.
- So the news reporter type people or the gossip type people, what do you think about all that?
- I don't appreciated being used as a gossip, you know, tool for you to get back at your boyfriend.
- The main characters of Clueless and Legally Blonde meet up with Blair Waldorf of Gossip Girl, the original Gossip Girl, not the copy.
- And then the main salesman in it, the main actor is the guy who was Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl, so I didn't even realise he was British.
Examples
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I always have to find someone to escort me back to my apartments, so, well, if you'll do that for me, then I'll fill you in on all the department gossip I know.
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Good gossip's hard currency in this town.
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I was known as being the gossip lady of the city.
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Besides, do I look like some kind of gossip queen to you?
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I want no evil gossip spread around about me.
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No, no, really, it was just some office gossip.
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I'm just an old gossip at heart, Sergeant.
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You are becoming an object of disagreeable gossip.
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Did any of the local gossips happen to mention a big object found up at Lake Champlain?
Fiction book (2000) -
I think you all know who I'm talking about, 'The Gossip of Grinder's Switch,' Cousin Minnie Pearl!
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
49
4.8
A person who talks too much and tells other people's secrets
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7.1
A person who asks too many questions about other people's private lives
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7.5
A person who talks too much and tells other people's secrets
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5.7
A person who talks too much or cannot keep secrets
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2.8
A person who often talks about other people's private lives and spreads rumors
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8.4
A person who often tells private stories about other people
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8.1
A person who tells secrets about other people
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8.3
A person who spreads private or untrue stories about others
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9.9
A person who spreads gossip or secrets to hurt others
A person who often spreads gossip or private news about others
A person who often tells news or rumors to many people
A person who spreads harmful gossip about others to attract attention
A person who tells other people's secrets and spreads rumors
A person who talks too much and tells other people's secrets
Compounds
- Literature
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4.2
A journalist who writes regular stories about celebrities, often using rumors
How Talkative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gossip first named a person: Old English godsibb was a 'godparent' or close family friend, and the sibb part is like sibling meaning 'relative'; because these friends talked about family matters, gossip came to mean someone who likes to talk about others.