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单词 gossiping
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gossipingn.

/ˈɡɒsɪpɪŋ/
Etymology: < gossip v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of gossip v.
1. A christening or christening-feast. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > feast following
christening1617
gossipinga1627
a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) ii. 18 You'le to the Gossiping of Mr Allwits Child?
1728 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. (Exeter) 30 Aug. Last Sunday Afternoon was celebrated here a Gossipping, or held a jovial Meeting of Good Wives and Sweethearts, to solemnize the Baptism of a Child.
1756 J. Willme Sepherah Shelosh 201 in Palatine Note-bk. (1881) I. 118 At the First Gift of whose Name (commonly called a Gossiping or Up~sit-Feast of Urbanity) there was a very great Rejoising, of many Neighbours and Relations.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Gossipping, a christening feast. Hence the act of frequently attending such gatherings.
2. A meeting of friends and acquaintances, esp. at the birth of a child; also gen. a merry-making.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun]
treschec1290
laetificationc1485
gossiping1557
special occasion1574
merry-meeting1597
merrymaking1618
frolic1645
merriment1663
rush1788
convivialities1830
merrymake1833
upshot1837
ball1879
spurt1885
sing-sing1899
jolly1905
rage1980
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gathering at birth of child
gossiping1557
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1568) ii. vii. 96 b They remember more the gossippinges that they haue to go, then their sinnes, which they ought to lament.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 506 They chew these leaves; and in their gossippings or visiting of their friends, they are..presented with them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 422 Will you walke in to see their gossipping ? View more context for this quotation
1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (at cited word) A gossiping, a merry meeting of gossips at a woman's lying in.
1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 677/1 Methought..I was present..at an angel's gossiping.
3.
a. The action of talking idly, or tattling; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearing
murmurationc1485
tattling1547
talebearing1571
by-babbling1614
twittinga1643
gossiping1712
gossipry1818
gossipred1828
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping
taling1382
susurrationa1425
trattlinga1425
tittlinga1450
tattlea1529
tittle-tattlea1529
tittle-tattlinga1586
news-making1707
gossiping1712
gossipry1818
gossipred1828
anecdoting1845
calleting1905
hen-cackle1907
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 310. ⁋9 Give us a Speculation on Gossipping.
1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 47 These kind of women are a good deal given to gossiping.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson I. 2 A considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping.
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 212 The gossiping of a profound politician..often, by a spontaneous stroke, reveals the individual.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xvii. 293 I shall be heartily glad to leave this place, with all this impertinent gossiping and scandal.
b. An assemblage, where this is the chief occupation.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > assemblage or centre for chat or gossip
gossiping1630
talking-shop1912
1630 J. Taylor Goose in Wks. i. 105/1 The fashion of her prate Our wiues at Gossipings doe imitate.
1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 62 They talked those matters over in their evening gossipings.
4. A literary composition of a light and chatty character. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > chatty
gossiping1814
1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 118 Mr. Walter Savage Landor..author of an epic piece of gossiping called Gebir.
5. attributive.
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1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxxvi. sig. G10v His friendships are a kinde of Gossiping friendships.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. v. 98 Those gossiping scenes of a play, in which the lacqueys, and waiting-maids lay their heads together.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 99 The Captain's lodge..was a kind of council fire and gossiping place for the veterans of the camp.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

gossipingadj.

/ˈɡɒsɪpɪŋ/
Etymology: < gossip v. + -ing suffix2.
That gossips or indulges in light and idle talk:
a. of persons.
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society > communication > information > rumour > [adjective] > tale-bearing
telltale1573
tattling1581
whispering1581
gossiping1618
clyping1722
rumouring1824
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adjective] > of or relating to chat > of or relating to gossip or rumour > gossiping
tittling1565
tittle-tattle1598
gossiping1618
tittle-tattling1720
anecdotical1732
anecdoting1740
anecdotic1791
gossipy1818
talky-talky1831
anecdotive1857
mauvais langue1961
1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 21 A prisoner is as much beholding to such leape-frog acquaintance, as a man shaken with the Ague to euery gossipping woman hee meetes.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cclxiii. 229 A Bevy of Jolly, Gossipping Wenches.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 32 People boast of a new acquaintance, as ‘a pleasant gossiping fellow’.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 82 The good woman, kindly and gossipping, seemed rather pleased than otherwise with having somebody come in to talk with.
b. of conversation and literary composition.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > chatty
gossiping1709
gossipy1818
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 118 Who..wou'd set her [religion]..on the same bottom with Parish-Tales, and Gossiping Storys of Imps, Goblins [etc.].
1729 W. Law Serious Call i. 5 If you was to ask him..why he gives himself up to an idle gossiping conversation?
1750 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 1 Sept. This I call a very gossiping letter.
1831 Mrs. Trollope in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) I. viii. 227 My book is gossiping, and..faithfully true to the evidence of my senses.
1860 C. Dickens Let. 7 Jan. (1997) IX. 195 An idea for my series of gossiping papers.
1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life xix. 194 A gossiping sketch, and claiming no controversial importance.
in extended use.1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. i. 22 Distaffs spinning the golden flax for the gossiping looms.

Derivatives

ˈgossipingly adv. in a gossiping manner.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adverb] > in a chatty or gossiping manner
gossipingly1817
chattingly1823
society > communication > information > rumour > [adverb] > tale-bearing
gossipingly1817
1817 J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 141 The most superficial [philosophers were] public and gossipingly social.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 209 Such was the formula by which we were first gossipingly made acquainted with the subject.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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