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gossip   (TTS Sound)

The noun gossip has 3 senses

• chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie -- (light informal conversation for social occasions)


• gossip, comment, scuttlebutt -- (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip")


• gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger -- (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)

The verb gossip has 2 senses

• dish the dirt, gossip -- (wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt")


• chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit -- (talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze")