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noun

Gossip n.

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. "Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken."

A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance. (Obs.) "My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal."

One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. "The common chat of gossips when they meet."

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. "Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite."

verb

Gossip v. t. To stand sponsor to. (Obs.)

Gossip v. i. (past & past part. gossiped; pres. part. gossiping)

To make merry. (Obs.)

To prate; to chat; to talk much.

To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gossip" Quotes from Famous Books

... then go forth and pass Down to the little thorpe that lies so close, And almost plastered like a martin's nest To these old walls—and mingle with our folk; And knowing every honest face of theirs As well as ever shepherd knew his sheep, And every homely secret in their hearts, Delight myself with gossip and old wives, And ills and aches, and teethings, lyings-in, And mirthful sayings, children of the place, That have no meaning half a league away: Or lulling random squabbles when they rise, Chafferings ...

— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

... be a fair thing for her to ask, but it was not a fair thing for me to promise. Olivia had told me she had no friends at all except Tardif and me; and if the gossip of the Sark people drove her from the shelter of his roof, I should be her only resource; and I believed she would come frankly ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton

... of his prestige, Napoleon was aware that he added to it by treating rather worse than stable lads the great personages around him, and among whom figured some of those celebrated men of the Convention of whom Europe had stood in dread. The gossip of the period abounds in illustrations of this fact. One day, in the midst of a Council of State, Napoleon grossly insults Beugnot, treating him as one might an unmannerly valet. The effect produced, he goes up to ...

— The Crowd • Gustave le Bon

... gossip of servants should enlighten the children sooner or later. The irony of it all is that this gossip filtered in here through your son, Duane. That is how the case stands, Colonel Mallett; and I have used my judgment and permitted the children ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... door again, and by this time the sidewalk excitement had subsided sufficiently to make room for an approach to the truth. The story of an armed band surrounding the bank had been a canard. There had been but one man concerned in the robbery, and the sidewalk gossip was beginning to ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

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