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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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Etymology of 'Gossip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gossip" Quotes from Famous Books

... as definite: "I hope Maurice will marry again; Edith's just the girl for him—What!" Mrs. Morton interrupted herself, at a whisper of gossip, "he had a mistress? I don't ...

— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

... at home, sometimes making friends of the villagers, standing god-father to peasant-children, or inviting heavy-booted but light-hearted plowmen to dance in the castle courtyard. But often his life was dull enough, with rents hard to collect, and only hunting, drinking, and gossip to pass ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... supper and ate it. He sat down with his back to an adobe wall and rolled a cigarette. The peons, loafing in the cool of the evening, naturally fell into gossip. Steve, intent on his own thoughts, did not hear what was said until a word snatched him out of his indifference. The word was ...

— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine

... "something right" in my dialect and for me? It's an advantage for me, of course. Didn't you tell me yourself this morning that she made a strange marriage, though, to my mind, to marry a rich old man is by no means a strange thing to do, but, on the contrary, very sensible. I don't believe the gossip of the town; but I should like to think, as our cultivated ...

— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... atmosphere grows thicker. She finally faces the most perilous and beautiful of experiences with little more than the ideas which have come to her from the confidences of evil-minded servants, inquisitive and imaginative playmates, or the gossip she overhears in her mother's society. Every other matter of her life, serious and commonplace, has received careful attention, but here she has been obliged to feel her way and, worst of abominations, to feel it with an inner fear that she ought ...

— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell

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