[
US
/ˈɡɑsəp/
]
[ UK /ɡˈɒsɪp/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɒsɪp/ ]
NOUN
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a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
the divorce caused much gossip - a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
- light informal conversation for social occasions
VERB
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wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
She won't dish the dirt -
talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
How To Use gossip In A Sentence
- The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
- My ringworm worried her more than the swarms of rumors the local gossips were stirring.
- This is not just gossip, incidentally; he publishes this detail in the programme. Times, Sunday Times
- gossip was the main business of the evening
- The gossip about her later proved to be entirely false.
- He cannot afford to draw the unwanted attention of gossip columnists unless he has some ulterior motive for doing so. Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
- She knew few other details and left my bedside to gossip with the other nurses in the hallway.
- Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
- He had begged Lorenzo to come to Fiesole, promising to explain once they were both in the house there together and away from the gossips in Florence. The Poet Prince
- For all the seniors out there that find Elizabeth Taylor still relevant, a flibbertigibbet is basically a chatty gossip. Elizabeth Taylor urges primary voters to back Clinton
