Definitions for gossip

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gossip gos·sip

Spelling: [gos-uh p]

IPA: /ˈgɒs əp/

Gossip is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in gossip (giopss).

Definitions for gossip

noun

1. idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others:
2. light, familiar talk or writing.
3. Also, gossiper, gossipper. a person given to tattling or idle talk.
4. Chiefly British Dialect. a godparent.
5. Archaic. a friend, especially a woman.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly British Dialect. to stand godparent to.
2. Archaic. to repeat like a gossip.

verb (used without object)

1. to talk idly, especially about the affairs of others; go about tattling.

Origin of gossip

before 1050; Middle English gossib, godsib(be), Old English godsibb, orig. godparent, equivalent to god God + sibb related; see sib

Examples for gossip

Since I was toiling away at the time as a gossip columnist for The Washington Post, I immediately called him back.

No wonder Florence has a hard time of it; but isn't it wretched of me to gossip?

And they sound like gulls, you know, when they sit and gossip in a bar together.

For her part, she was busy and could not spare time to gossip.

Narcisse listened, smiling, and in his turn began to gossip confidentially.

That's all gossip, you know; not a word of truth in it, and it's been very annoying to us both.

I don't know what the hell she'd do for gossip if we were to get married.

The mayor and Biasi are a popular topic of gossip in Matamoros.

“Women go to the bathroom together and gossip, talk and argue all the time,” Vithi Cuc told The National.

However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.