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gossipry|ˈgɒsɪprɪ|
[f. gossip n. + -ry.]
1. Spiritual relationship: = gossipred 1.
1550Bale Image Both Ch. iii. xviii. Bb. viij b, [Marriage should be forbidden] neither for vowes vnaduised, nor for no popish orders, nor yet for any gossypry. 1861G. W. Dasent Story Burnt Njal II. 248, I challenge both these men out of the inquest..for this sake, that one of them is Mord's second cousin by kinship, but the other for gossipry. 1880Academy 21 Aug. 134 There exist many kinds of gossipry besides the usual form connected with christenings.
†b. Intimacy. Obs.—1
a1614J. Melvill Diary (MS.) 36 (Jam.), All gossiprie gade up between him and my uncle Mr. Andrew.
c. concr. A relative in general.
1887Browning Parleyings, Fust & Friends 12 Greet us thy gossipry, cousin and sib!
2. The practice of gossiping; small talk, gossip; also, a gossiping conversation.
1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 199 ‘Well, my dear!’ as we say in Ireland when we enter on a gossipry. 1819W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXIX. 145 We cannot help being struck with a certain feeling of inanity..of inquiry squandered on the gossipry of the past. 1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 362 Any bald disjointed chat—any gossipry—that an accomplished writer may please to descend to. 1876Dowden Poems 50 At evening I went back, Walked past the idle groups at gossipry.
b. Gossiping discourse.
1865Sat. Rev. 25 Mar. 348 Girls..are to learn..Greek, to enable them to enjoy..the gossipry of Herodotus.
c. concr. A body of gossips.
1853Mrs. Browning Lett. 16 May, Think kindly of us in the midst of your brilliant London gossipry. 1888N. & Q. 11 Aug. 114 The striking circumstances of it were quite sufficient..to convince all the gossipry of Rome that he was poisoned. |