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gossip

 
Noun gossip has 3 senses
  1. chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie - light informal conversation for social occasions
    --1 is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
    Derived form: verb gossip2
  2. gossip, comment, scuttlebutt - a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"
    --2 is a kind of report, account
    --2 has particulars:
     earful; rumor, rumour, hearsay; grapevine, pipeline, word of mouth; scandal, dirt, malicious gossip; talk, talk of the town
    Derived form: verb gossip1
  3. gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger - a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
    --3 is a kind of communicator
    --3 has particulars:
     cat; scandalmonger; tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth; yenta
    Derived form: verb gossip1
Verb gossip has 2 senses
  1. dish the dirt, gossip - wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt"
    --1 is one way to talk, speak
    Derived forms: noun gossiper1, noun gossip3, noun gossip2, noun gossiping1
    Sample sentences:
    Sam and Sue gossip
    Sam wants to gossip with Sue
  2. chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
    --2 is one way to converse, discourse
    Derived form: noun gossip1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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