country talk
now rare
noun
The talk or gossip of a rural area.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Abraham Fraunce (?1559–?1593), poet and lawyer.
- speaker
- speaker cabinet
- speakerphone
- speakership
- speak evil of
- speak for oneself
- speak for yourself
- speaking
- speaking clock
- speaking of
- speaking trumpet
- speaking tube
- speak in tongues
- speak one's mind
- speak (or talk) of the devil
- speak (or talk) out of turn
- speak (or think) ill of
- speak out (or up)
- speak the same language
- speak up
- speak up for
- speak volumes
- speak well (or ill) of
- spear
- spear carrier