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UK
/ɡˈɒsɪpɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈɡɑsəpɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɑsəpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a conversation that spreads personal information about other people
How To Use gossiping In A Sentence
- She can spend a whole day gossiping with her neighbours.
- My grandmother spent her hours playing dominoes and canasta and gossiping.
- Shortly after, when her telephone call for help is ignored by a gossiping switchboard operator, she meets her own end, on the blade of a bayonet.
- People are bargaining, arguing, gossiping; dogs are bickering, chickens scratching in the dirt.
- Yes, the dip/spread is addictive with considerable salt within and on the chips, needing a beverage to be quaffed over three or four hours while intensely engrossed in the action or in the gossiping on the sidelines: I vote for light, cool, flavorful and modest alcohol – Beaujolais-Villages. Seven layer dip: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog
- What would I be thinking if I wasn't obsessing about whether I'd been overheard gossiping and, if so, whether it was going to ruin my or someone else's life?
- They were clearly gossiping about your new haircut. The Sun
- 'For the present,' I say all this work in 'Proserpina' being merely tentative, much to be modified by future students, and therefore quite different from that of 'Deucalion,' which is authoritative as far as it reaches, and will stand out like a quartz dyke, as the sandy speculations of modern gossiping geologists get washed away. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
- She wasn't a local lord's daughter though, she lacked the herd of gossiping attendants and bodyguards; she had only her horse.
- ; and for his fictions to poor old gossiping Aubrey; while his inferences, in respect to Hariot's deism and disbelief in the Scriptures, are probably his own, as we find no sufficient trace of them prior to the appearance of his Athenæ, unless it be in Chief Justice Popham's unjust charge at Winchester in 1603, when he is said to have twitted Raleigh from the bench with having been 'bedeviled' by Hariot. Thomas Hariot