Gossip

Definition: Gossip

Gossip

Noun

1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.

2. A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip".

3. A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others.

Verb

1. Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies.

2. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gossip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Gossip

Conversation

Verb: talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate; (loquacity); powwow.

Gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer; (loquacity); interlocutor; (spokesman); conversationist, dialogist.

Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village.

Curiosity

Inquirer; sightseer; quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip; (news); rubberneck; intellectual; seeker, seeker after truth.

Loquacity

Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking.

Talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; Verb: rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite; gossip; (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles.

News

Narrator; (describe); newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler.

Crosswords: Gossip

I'm just saying, if you want to gossip in the ladies' room, check under the stalls for her shoes (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

Life lesson: The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. (references; author: unknown)

Gossip Street (1974)

The Gossip (1955)

Gossip (1953)

The Preacher and the Gossip (1912)

Gossip (1912)

Croc Gossip (performing artist: Michael Case Kissel)

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Books

• Death of a Gossip (reference)

• Gossip from Thrush Green (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gossip (reference)

• We're Mad/Idle Gossip (reference)

• Bibleman: Silencing the Gossip Queen (reference)

• Toy Dolls: Idle Gossip (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Idol Gossip (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Gossip. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gossip from the southern golf belt. Credit: Library of Congress.

The "gossip corner" in Stem, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

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All such topics as the weather, or politics, or local gossip, are unknown among us.

He has been duped by a spy, perhaps even by a sheep, who made him his gossip.

The gossip of his fellowstudents which strove to render the flat life of the college significant at any cost loved to think of him as a young fenian

Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip.

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Civil Liberties

Albania

Sensationalism is the norm in the newspapers, and the political party-oriented newspapers print gossip, unsubstantiated accusations, and outright fabrications. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "gossip": coulisse gossip ♦ gossip about ♦ gossip coloumnist ♦ gossip columnist ♦ gossip factory ♦ gossip merchant ♦ gossip mongering ♦ have a gossip ♦ idle gossip ♦ malicious gossip ♦ peddler of gossip ♦ pedlar of gossip ♦ retailer of gossip ♦ society gossip ♦ spread a piece of gossip. Additional references.

Beginning with "gossip": gossip-column, gossip-columnist, gossip-columnists, gossip-point.

Ending with "gossip": backstairs-gossip, newcomers-gossip, science-gossip.

Afrikaans

klets. (various references)

Albanian

gojosje (slander), gojos (backbite, gab, slander, speak ill of smb.), thashethemexhi (newsmonger, peddlery, pedlar, pedlary), thashetheme (backbite, badinage, chitchat, grape vine, gup, hearsay, idle gossip, noise, old wives' tales, report, rumor, rumour, scuttlebutt, tale, tittle tattle, tootle, whisper), përgojim (slander, vilification), mbaj nëpër gojë të tjerët, llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, blatant, chatterbox, chatterer, chatty, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, garrulous, gasbag, gossipmonger, gossipy, long-tongued, loose-tongued, magpie, mouther, popinjay, prattler, rattle-box, rattler, rattletrap, sieve, spieler, storyteller, talebearer, talkative, tattler, tattletale, telltale, windbag). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نميمة (dirt, scandal, talebearing, talk, tattle), ‏نمام (informer, prattler, telltale), ‏نم (sneak, snitch, tale, tattle, tell smb. smth., tell tales), ‏نشر الإ شاعات القيل والقال, ‏إنهمك فى القيل و القال, ‏إشاعة (breeze, buzz, grape vine, hearing, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, story, tale, word), ‏إشاعات (scandal, scuttle), ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сладки приказки, кръстница (cummer, godmother, godparent), кръстник (godfather, godparent), клюкарствувам (talk scandal, tattle, tittle tattle), клюкарство, клюкарка (tabby), клюкар (newsmonger, peddler of gossip, pedlar of gossip, quidnunc, retailer of gossip, rumor monger, rumour monger, scandalmonger, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale), клюка (cambock, cammock, noise, scuttlebutt, tale, whiff), моабет, бърборко (babbler, bladder, blatherskite, bletherskate, chatterer, gabber, magpie, prattler, tattler), интимна приятелка. (various references)

Chinese 

闲话, �'話 , 閑話 (complaint, digression), �"�龍門陣 (chat, spin a yarn). (various references)

Czech

povídat si (chat, confabulate), pomluvy (dirt, scandal), pomlouvat (backbite, denigrate, malign, slander, spread scandal), klevetník (scandalmonger), klevetit (backbite, talk, tattle), kleveta (tale, titbit), klepy (dirt, tattle), klepna (tell tale, telltale), klábosit (chat, chatter, jaw, jazz, natter, talk), klábosení (chatter, chitchat, jaw, natter), drby, drbna (scandalmonger). (various references)

Danish

snakke (chat, chatter, speak, talk), sludre (chat, chatter). (various references)

Dutch

kwaadspreken (slander), kletsen. (various references)

Esperanto

klaĉo, klaĉi. (various references)

Faeroese

sleya. (various references)

Farsi 

سخن چینی کردن , سخن چینی , خبرکشی کردن (Telltale), اراجیف , شایعات بی پروپا, شایعات بی اساس دادن , شایعات بی اساس , دری وری گفتن یانوشتن , دری وری , بدگوءی (Defamation, Denunciation, Obloquy, Vilification, Vituperation). (various references)

Finnish

juoruta (tell tales), juoruakka (scandalmonger), juoru. (various references)

French

jaser, cancaner. (various references)

German

Klatsch (chin-wag, scandal, smack, splash, splosh), tratschen (tattle, to chin-wag), Tratsch (chin-wag, scandal, tittle tattle), klatschen (applaud, blab, clap, go smack, lap, pitter patter, plash, ripple, slap, slosh, smack, smash, sneak, splash, swat, talk, tattle, tell tales, thwack, to applaud, to chin-wag, to clap), geschwätz (bunk, drivel, flubdub, gab, gossiping, idle talk, jaw, palaver, prattle, rigmarole, tittle tattle). (various references)

Greek 

κουτσομπολεύω (tattle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשון �"רע (calumny, slander), לפטפט (babble, blather, chat, chatter, gabble, jabber, palaver, prate, prattle, shoot ones mouth off), ל�"רכיל (slander), לרכל (tell tales, telltale), שמוע�" (hearsay, report, rumor, rumour), רכילות (chat, hearsay, libel, scandal, slander, tale taling, tattle), רכלן (gossiper, gossipmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, tattletale, telltale), רכל. (various references)

Hungarian

pletyka (clash, gup, scuttlebut, scuttlebutt, tittle-tattle, whisper, whispering). (various references)

Icelandic

masa (chat, chatter), blaðra (chat, chatter). (various references)

Indonesian

gunjing, pergosip, menggunjing, memgosip (chat), celetuk (chat, say something abruptly). (various references)

Italian

pettegolo (gossipy, tattler, telltale), pettegolezzo (chat, talk), pettegolare (applaud, clap, tattle, tittle tattle), maldicenza (backbiting, scandal, scandalmongering, slander), individuo pettegolo, diceria (hearsay, rumor, rumour), chiacchierone (babbler, blabber, cackler, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gasser, jay, mouthy, rattler, rattlers, tattler, telltale, twaddler), chiacchierare (blab, chat, chatter, natter, prate, rap, talk, tattle, twaddle, visit), chiacchiera (babble, gab, natter, tattle, waffle), chiacchere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

悪舌 (evil tongue), 世�"話 (chat), 俗話 (wordly story), ゴシック建築 (Gobelins, goblet, goblin, god, Goddard, godfather, Godzilla, gospel, gospel song, gossip maker, gothic, Gothic architecture, State Bank, State Plan, thud), 口の端 , 巷談 (rumour), 巷説 (talk about town), 下馬評 (hearsay, irresponsible criticism, rumor, speculation), 取り沙汰 (rumor, talk), 蜚語 (rumour), お喋り (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, chitchat, idle talk, talk, talkative), 噂 (common talk, report, rumour), 無駄話 (chat, idle talk), 空談 (chatter), 珍談 (anecdote, funny story), 閑話 (quiet talk), 風説 (hearsay, rumor), 余聞 (rumor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"わ (Chinese Character-Japanese, mitigation, quiet talk, relief, the Mandarin language), とりざた (current rumour, rumor, talk), �'ばひょう (hearsay, irresponsible criticism, rumor, speculation), よぶ�" (excess, extra, rumor, surplus), ゴシップ , む� ばなし (chat, idle talk), あくした (evil tongue), あくぜつ (evil tongue), ち�"� �" (anecdote, funny story), �"うせつ (explanation, public, sexual intercourse, skill, snow, snowfall, tact, talk about town, workmanship, your opinion), ぞくわ (wordly story), せけ�"ばなし (chat), ふうせつ (hardships, hearsay, rumor, snowstorm, wind and snow), うわさ (common talk, report, rumour), ひ�" (baseless rumor, patronage, protection, rumour, slang, vulgar expression, vulgarism), くちのは, くう� �" (chatter), おしゃべり (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, chitchat, idle talk, talk, talkative), �"う� �" (highly ranked, latter or second part, leaving the platform, lecture platform, public corporation, rumour, story-telling, your lofty discourse). (various references)

Korean 

험담. (various references)

Manx

tutlerys (chat, chatter, tale-bearing, tale-telling, tattle, tittle-tattle), tutleragh (chatty, gossipy, loquacious, tattling), tutler (chatterbox, tale-bearer, tattler), skeealerey (newsmonger, story-teller, tale-bearer, tale-teller), skeealeragh (communicative, prating, story-teller, tale-bearer, tattler, tattling), goshtiuagh. (various references)

Norwegian

sladre (slander), sladder, skravle (chat, chatter, gab, jaw). (various references)

Papiamen

klèts. (various references)

Pig Latin

ossipgay.(various references)

Portuguese

tagarelar (blather, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chipper, clack, clat, clatter, dodder, gab, gabble, gas, jabber, jaw, keckle, patter, prate, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle), murmurar (bicker, brawl, bubble, coo, croon, groan, grumble, gurgle, ha, hum, lip, murmur, mutter, prattle, purl, repine, sough, whisper), mexerico (gossiping, intrigue), mexericar (gab, intrigue, scandalize, snoop, tattle, tittle-tattle), fofocar, fofoca (chitchat), falar dos outros, conversa fútil, conversa banal (tea-table conversation), bisbolhetice, bisbilhotice (gossiping), bisbilhotar (kike, pry, snoop, tattle), bate-boca (chat, quarrel, squabble, wrangle). (various references)

Romanian

gurã (aperture, armful, Buss, chops, entrance, gab, influx, issue, jaw, kisser, lip, lips, mouth, mouthful, muzzle, orifice, pestering, plug, row, scolding, sip, speech, spout, squabble, vent), gaiţã (jabberer, jay, magpie, rattler, telltale), fofelniţã, bârfã (chit chat, small talk), bârfealã (backbiting, calumny, scandal, slander), bârfi (backbite, calumniate, cast a slur upon, chatter, decry, defame, malign, put a slur upon, revile, slander, slur, smear, talk, talk scandal), caţã (scold, termagant), cancan (cancan, tittle tattle), cleveti (abuse, backbite, calumniate, decry, defame, revile, slander, talk, talk scandal, traduce), clevetire (defamation, scandal, slander, slandering), cumãtrã (Goody), femeie bârfitoare, şuetã (chat), flecãri (babble, blab, blether, cackle, chatter, humbug, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), zvon (breeze, bruit, cry, grape vine, hearsay, hum, idle rumor, idle rumour, noise, peal, report, ringing, rumor, rumour, story, talk), mahalagioaicã (busy body, suburbanite), mahalagism (Billingsgate, tittle tattle), mahalagiu (busy body, suburbanite), pãlãvrãgi (babble, chatter, confabulate, crack, humbug, jabber, prate, twaddle), pãlãvrãgiu (cackler, gossiper, yap), taifas (chit chat, confabulation, tittle tattle), trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gibber, jabber, jangle, Maunder, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, yap), vorbã (accent, agreement, discussion, peep, pepper, rumor, rumour, say, saying, story, subject, talk, word, words), flecãrealã (babble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, gabble, patter, prate, prattle, talk, tattle, tittle tattle). (various references)

Russian 

сплетня (gup, scuttlebutt, tale, tattle, whispering), сплетничать сплетня, сплетни (slander, tittle tattle), кумушка (cummer), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), бабьисказки, бабьисказ. (various references)

Scottish

goisdidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glasine (odor, odour), trač, ogovaranje (backbite, obloquy, slander, vilification). (various references)

Spanish

cotilleo, charlar (chat, chatter, chin, gab, gas, jaw, natter, prate, prattle, shoot the bull, talk, visit, yap), chismear (clack, talk, tattle, tell tales), chismes (bit and pieces, odds and ends, scandal, talk, tattle, whispering), chismorreo (scandal, tattle, tittletattle), chismoso (blab, blabber, gossiping, gossipmonger, quidnunc, rumor monger, rumour monger, scandalmonger, talebearer, tattletale), comadre (midwife), comadreo, comidilla (byword), charla (babble, causerie, chat, chatter, chitchat, clack, derision, gab, gabble, natter, prate, rattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittletattle, yap), cotillear (babble, blab), parloteo (babble, babbling, cackle, chatter, gabble, prate, prattle, small talk, yap), echar un párrafo, hablador (big-mouthed, bletherskate, chatty, communicant, demagogue, driveler, driveller, Gabby, gossipmonger, joker, talkative, talker, tattler), habladurías (rumor, rumour, talk, tattle), informe (advice, dossier, formless, information, instruction, pleading, reference, report, shapeless), los chismes, mala lengua, murmuración (backbiting), murmurador (backbiter, purling), contar chismes (tattle). (various references)

Swedish

sladder (chatter, tattle), skvallra (blab, blow the gaff, chew the fat, let on, natter, peach, sneak, talk, tattle, tell, tell tales, tittle tattle), skvaller (scandal, slander, tattle, tittle tattle, tittle-tattle). (various references)

Thai

นินทา (talk), การนินทา (talk, tattle), คนชอบนินทา. (various references)

Turkish

gevezelik etmek (babble, blab, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, gabble, natter, prate, prattle, tattle), gevezelik (babbling, cackle, chattering, chinwag, chitchat, clack, comment, gab, gabble, garrulity, indiscretion, jaw, jive, loquaciousness, loquacity, mouthiness, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, talky-talk, tattle, volubility, windiness, yap), hoşbeş (chat, confab, confabulation, talk), dedikoducu kimse (flibbertigibbet, whisperer), dedikodu yapmak (bear tales, carry tales, talk scandal, tattle, tell tales, tittle tattle, tittletattle, wag one's tongue, whisper), dedikodu (dirt, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, scandal, scuttlebutt, tale, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tittletattle), çene çalmak (chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chitchat, have a gossip, jaw, prattle, visit). (various references)

Turkmen 

gybat, gepзi (busy-body), wyюyrdamak (whisper), warsaky (chatter). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпускати плітки (scandalize, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak), базікало (babbler, cackler, chatterbox, windbag), плітки (newsmongering, scandal, tattle, tittle tattle). (various references)

Welsh

clonc (addled, clank), clep (clack, clap), clec (clack, click, crack), clebran (babble, chatter, tattle), clebar (chatter, idle talk, tattle), clapio (lump, strike), chwedleua (talk). (various references)

fama, rumor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gossip": gossiped, gossiper, gossipers, gossiping, gossipmonger, gossipmongers, gossipped, gossipping, gossipries, gossipry, gossips, gossipy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gossip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gassip, Gesipa, Gessin, gioseppo, Giswil, Glssi, Gosau, Gosein, gosep, Gosio, gosip, gossi, gossipl, gossom, Gossop, gossup, gossy, gosti, gousi, Gussin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pisos.

-2 letters: gips, pigs, piso, piss, pois, psis, sips, sops.

-3 letters: gip, gos, ops, pig, pis, poi, psi, sip, sis, sop, sos.

-4 letters: go, is, op, os, pi, si, so.

+1 letter: gaposis, gossips, gossipy, spigots.

+2 letters: godships, gossiped, gossiper, gossipry, pishoges, postings, signpost, spongins, spousing.

+3 letters: disposing, dogeships, espousing, gaposises, gossipers, gossiping, gossipped, highspots, isographs, kingposts, longships, pishogues, prognosis, serpigoes, shopgirls, shoppings, signposts, sploshing, spoilages, spongiest, spoolings, supposing, uptossing.

+4 letters: apologises, apologists, bespousing, compassing, epigonisms, espionages, geophysics, gossipping, gossipries, guideposts, mispoising, nightspots, offsprings, oppressing, outpassing, plainsongs, pogromists, poisonings, posologies, possessing, posturings, processing, professing, progestins, sapogenins, semigroups, signposted, spirogyras, sponginess, sponsoring, spotlights, springboks, stoplights.