gossipnoun
uk/ˈɡɒs.ɪp/us/ˈɡɑː.səp/B2 [ S or U ] conversation or reports about other people's private lives that might be unkind, disapproving, or not true:
Her letter was full of gossip.
I don't like all this idle gossip.
I've got some juicy gossip for you.
Have you heard the (latest) gossip?
UK Jane and Lyn sat in the kitchen having a good gossip about their friends.
[ C ] disapproving also gossipmonger, someone who enjoys talking about other people and their private lives:
She's a terrible gossip.
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- I've just been talking to the girls downstairs and I've got some delicious gossip.
- Some magazines contain nothing but scandal and gossip.
- She always keeps me up to date with the latest gossip.
- There's a lot of gossip about me going around. What have you been saying?
- Let's go for a coffee - I need to catch up on all the gossip.
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Speakers & talkers
- caller
- commentator
- conversationalist
- debate
- demagogue
- eulogy
- flack
- gasbag
- heckle
- informant
- interlocutor
- motormouth
- orator
- peddler
- raconteur
- speaker
- spokesman
- talker
- voice
- windbag
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gossipy
adjective uk/ˈɡɒs.ɪ.pi/us/ˈɡɑː.sə.pi/
a gossipy letter
gossipy people
gossipverb [ I ]
uk/ˈɡɒs.ɪp/us/ˈɡɑː.səp/B2 to talk about other people's private lives:
Stop gossiping and do your work.
People have started to gossip about us.
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- She's been gossiping and hasn't done a stroke of work all morning.
- Janet spends hours gossiping on the phone.
- I wouldn't tell her your secrets - you know how she likes to gossip.
- It's not only the women around here who like to gossip, you know!
- The old folk sit gossiping in the village square for most of the morning.
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Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- be the talk of the town idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- dob sb in
- emerge
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- tell on sb
- tongues wagging idiom
- turn
- unmask
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