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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1926|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|authorlink=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=The Land of Mist|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601351h.html|passage="Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They '''gossiped''' in my time and they '''gossip''' still."}} |
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1926|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|authorlink=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=The Land of Mist|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601351h.html|passage="Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They '''gossiped''' in my time and they '''gossip''' still."}} |
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# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To stand [[godfather]] to; to provide [[godparents]] for. |
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To stand [[godfather]] to; to provide [[godparents]] for. |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=c. 1602|author={{w|William Shakespeare}}|title={{w|All's Well That Ends Well|All’s Well That Ends Well}}|section=Act{{nbsp}}1, Scene{{nbsp}}1|url=http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=allswell&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl|text={{...}} a world<br>Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [''[[i.e.]]'' Christian names],<br>That blinking Cupid '''gossips'''.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1709|author={{w|Richard Steele}}|work={{w|Tatler (1709 journal)|The Tatler}}|title=No.{{nbsp}}95 in ''The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff''|location=London, 1712|p=282|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.002|text=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.}} |
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1709|author={{w|Richard Steele}}|work={{w|Tatler (1709 journal)|The Tatler}}|title=No.{{nbsp}}95 in ''The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff''|location=London, 1712|p=282|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.002|text=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.}} |
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# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[enjoy oneself]] during [[festivities]], to [[make merry]]. |
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[enjoy oneself]] during [[festivities]], to [[make merry]]. |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=c. 1596|author={{w|William Shakespeare}}|title={{w|King John (play)|King John}}|section=Act{{nbsp}}5, Scene{{nbsp}}2|url=http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=kingjohn&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl|text={{...}} those baby eyes<br>That never saw the giant world enraged;<br>Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,<br>Full of warm blood, of mirth, of '''gossiping'''.}} |
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Revision as of 17:55, 25 April 2022
See also: Gossip
English
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.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: gos‧sip
Noun
gossip (countable and uncountable, plural gossips)
- (countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
- Synonyms: busybody, gossipmonger, meddler, rumormonger; see also Thesaurus:gossiper
- Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.
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- 1846, Herman Melville, “Sequel Containing the Story of Toby”, in Typee[1]:
- 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 […]
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- (uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
- Synonyms: dirt, hearsay, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt; see also Thesaurus:rumor
- According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.
- I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.
- 1818, Jane Austen, chapter 18, in Persuasion[2]:
- […] the thing is certainly true. It is not a mere bit of gossip. We have it from Frederick himself.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- 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. […]
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- 2018, Anna Burns, chapter 1, in Milkman[3], London: Faber & Faber:
- Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed in the area. Gossip washed in, washed out, came, went, moved on to the next target.
- (uncountable) Idle conversation in general.
- Synonyms: chat, chinwag, chit-chat, natter; see also Thesaurus:chatter
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 38, in Little Women[4]:
- 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.
- (uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
- a gossip columnist
- a gossip blog
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- 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 savour.
- (now only historical) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of a child.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona[5], Act 3, Scene 1:
- ’tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips [i.e. she could not be a virgin, because she has children with godparents]
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- 1908, Patrick Weston Joyce, A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, page 287:
- When a man stood sponsor for a child at baptism, he became the child's godfather, and gossip to the parents.
- 2010, Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England, Penn State Press (→ISBN), page 154:
- Gossips accepted responsibility for the child's spiritual and physical well-being, […]
- (obsolete) A familiar acquaintance.
- Synonym: friend
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII[6], Act 5, Scene 5:
- My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
I thank ye heartily;
- (obsolete) Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor[7], Act 4, Scene 2:
- What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!
- 1905, William John Locke, chapter 11, in The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne[8]:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
person
idle talk
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Verb
gossip (third-person singular simple present gossips, present participle gossiping or gossipping, simple past and past participle gossiped or gossipped)
- (intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
- Synonyms: blab, dish the dirt, spill the tea, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chinwag, natter, prattle, shoot the breeze
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 14, in Three Men in a Boat[9]:
- […] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;
- 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[10]:
- "Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still."
- (obsolete) To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well[11], Act 1, Scene 1:
- […] a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names],
That blinking Cupid gossips.
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- (obsolete) To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John[12], Act 5, Scene 2:
- […] 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.
Translations
to talk about someone else's private or personal business
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to talk idly
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References
- Michael Quinion (2004) “Gossip”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
Italian
Etymology
Noun
gossip m (invariable)
- gossip (especially concerning famous or important people)
- Synonym: pettegolezzo
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