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gossipy, a.|ˈgɒsɪpɪ|
[f. gossip n. + -y1.]
Of a literary composition: Characterized by, or full of, gossip. Of a person: Inclined or devoted to gossip.
1818T. Murdoch in Smiles J. Murray (1891) II. xxii. 67 [It] would soon..sink the journal down to the level of a common gossipy magazine. 1829Dk. Buckingham Diary III. ix. 208 Don't like Florence. The Society is confined, but gossipy to a degree. 1865Spectator 11 Feb. 164 The book, though slight and gossippy, has an interest. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 83 The old woman's memories were wholly of gossipy family history. 1923F. M. Ford Let. 20 Jan. (1965) 147 Suppose you write me a nice gossipy letter.
Hence ˈgossipiness, inclination for gossip.
1890Universal Rev. Apr. 604, I don't ask out of mere gossipiness. |