'Gossip' definitions:
Definition of 'gossip'
From: WordNet
noun
Light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]
noun
A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip" [syn: gossip, comment, scuttlebutt]
noun
A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others [syn: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger]
verb
Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt" [syn: dish the dirt, gossip]
verb
Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
Definition of 'Gossip'
From: GCIDE
- Gossip \Gos"sip\, v. t. To stand sponsor to. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gossip'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Gossip'
From: GCIDE
- Gossip \Gos"sip\, n. [OE. gossib, godsib, a relation or sponsor in baptism, a relation by a religious obligation, AS. godsibb, fr. god + sib alliance, relation; akin to G. sippe, Goth. sibja, and also to Skr. sabh[=a] assembly.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. [1913 Webster]
- Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. --Selden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. [1913 Webster]
- The common chat of gossips when they meet. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. [1913 Webster]
- Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gossip'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a tale-bearing animal,
- account,
- ace,
- amigo,
- associate,
- babble,
- babblement,
- back-fence gossip,
- banter,
- bavardage,
- be closeted with,
- bedfellow,
- bedmate,
- bibble-babble,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabbermouth,
- blah-blah,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blether,
- blethers,
- bosom buddy,
- bruit,
- buddy,
- bunkie,
- bunkmate,
- busybody,
- butty,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- camarade,
- caquet,
- caqueterie,
- chamberfellow,
- chat,
- chatter,
- chatterbox,
- chitchat,
- chitter-chatter,
- chronicle,
- chum,
- clack,
- classmate,
- clatter,
- colleague,
- comate,
- companion,
- company,
- compeer,
- comrade,
- confrere,
- consociate,
- consort,
- conversation,
- copartner,
- coze,
- crony,
- cry,
- dither,
- dope,
- eavesdropper,
- fellow,
- fellow student,
- flibbertigibbet,
- gab,
- gabble,
- gam,
- gas,
- gibber,
- gibble-gabble,
- girl friend,
- go on,
- gossip columnist,
- gossiper,
- gossiping,
- gossipmonger,
- gossipmongering,
- gossipry,
- grapevine,
- groundless rumor,
- guff,
- gup,
- gush,
- haver,
- hearsay,
- hint,
- hot air,
- idle talk,
- imply,
- information,
- inquirer,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitor,
- insinuate,
- intimate,
- jabber,
- jaw,
- make conversation,
- mate,
- mere talk,
- messmate,
- natter,
- newsmonger,
- newsmongering,
- newspaperman,
- nonsense talk,
- nosy Parker,
- old crony,
- on dit,
- on-dit,
- pal,
- palaver,
- pard,
- pardner,
- partner,
- patter,
- Paul Pry,
- Peeping Tom,
- piece of gossip,
- playfellow,
- playmate,
- poop,
- pour forth,
- prate,
- prating,
- prattle,
- prittle-prattle,
- pry,
- querier,
- querist,
- questioner,
- quidnunc,
- ramble on,
- rattle,
- rattle on,
- reel off,
- reporter,
- retail gossip,
- roommate,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- rumble,
- rumor,
- rumormonger,
- run on,
- scandal,
- scandalmonger,
- schoolfellow,
- schoolmate,
- scopophiliac,
- scuttlebutt,
- shipmate,
- side partner,
- sidekick,
- sieve,
- sightseer,
- small talk,
- snoop,
- snooper,
- spout,
- spout off,
- story,
- suggest,
- tabby,
- tale,
- talebearer,
- talebearing,
- taleteller,
- taletelling,
- talk,
- talk away,
- talk nonsense,
- talk on,
- talkee-talkee,
- tattle,
- tattler,
- tattletale,
- teammate,
- tell idle tales,
- telltale,
- tete-a-tete,
- tittle-tattle,
- tittle-tattler,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- visit,
- voyeur,
- waffle,
- whisper,
- word,
- workfellow,
- yak,
- yakkety-yak,
- yenta,
- yokefellow,
- yokemate