gossip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage.
Base: god
Inflected forms:
form: gossips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gossips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gossiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gossipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: gossiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gossiped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gossipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: gossipped
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.
A losing Gamester, who is obliged to drive into the City to dispose of a little South Sea Stock, gives the Hint there. The Gossips at Garraway’s have it in a Moment: At One it is buzz’d on Change, and the circulating Whisper in the Boxes interrupts the Play at Night.
He was an arrant old gossip, too; for ever coming off in his canoe to the ships in the bay, and regaling their crews with choice little morsels of court scandal […]
Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street. He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.
gloss: Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.
I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.
[…] the thing is certainly true. It is not a mere bit of gossip. We have it from Frederick himself.
I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don’t adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]
The smaller a town the more richly it hums with gossip. There are no private affairs here. Gossip is the air we breathe.
Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed in the area. Gossip washed in, washed out, came, went, moved on to the next target.
gloss: Idle conversation in general.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.
gloss: A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a gossip columnist
a gossip blog
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
gloss: Communication done using a gossip protocol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: ’tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips [i.e. she could not be a virgin, because she has children with godparents]
Should a great Lady, that was invited to be a Gossip, in her place send her Kitchen-Maid, ’twould be ill taken;
It seems, Miss, that if he stood not himself, or procur’d not Gossips for the Christening of the Children of his poorer Tenants, he always sent them a large rich Cake […]
When a man stood sponsor for a child at baptism, he became the child's godfather, and gossip to the parents.
Gossips accepted responsibility for the child's spiritual and physical well-being, […]
gloss: A familiar acquaintance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
I thank ye heartily;
gloss: Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!
He was old and infirm, he wrote, and Gossip Death was waiting for him on the moor; but before he went to join him he would like to see Susan’s boy again.
gloss: To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England.
Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will.
gloss: To talk idly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;
"Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still."
gloss: To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: […] a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names],
That blinking Cupid gossips.
The Pleasure I used to take in telling my Boy Stories of the Battles, and asking my Girl Questions about the Disposal of her Baby, and the Gossiping of it, is turned into inward Reflection and Melancholy.
gloss: To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: […] those baby eyes
That never saw the giant world enraged;
Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,
Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.
gloss: To communicate using a gossip protocol.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: blab
cag
chelp
clepe
dish
dish the dirt
fetch and carry
gossip
jaunder
labrish
shoot the shit
talk
talk out of turn
tattle
tell tales out of school
tittle-tattle
Related words: word has it
prattle
rat out
gossiper
Derived words: cybergossip
gossipee
gossiper
gossipfest
gossipful
gossiphood
gossipish
gossipless
gossiplike
gossiply
gossip mill
gossip mirror
gossip-prone
gossipred
gossipy
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