town talk
/taʊn ˈtɔːk/(also town's talk)
noun
The common talk or gossip of the people of a town; a person or matter discussed in this way.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Wishing Common-wealths Men. In some forms from town + talk.
- self-effacing
- self-effacingly
- self-employed
- self-employment
- self-enclosed
- self-esteem
- self-evaluation
- self-evidence
- self-evident
- self-evidently
- self-examination
- self-examining
- pay for itself
- pay freeze
- pay-gate
- pay grade
- pay gravel
- pay hike
- paying back
- paying guest
- paying in
- paying off
- paying-off pendant
- paying-off pennant
- paying out