gossip
流言蜚语,闲聊,八卦,说话
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Definitions
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- : idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- : light, familiar talk or writing.
- : Also gos·sip·er, gos·sip·per. a person given to tattling or idle talk.
- : Chiefly British Dialect. a godparent.
- : Archaic. a friend, especially a woman.
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gos·siped or gos·sipped, gos·sip·ing or gos·sip·ping.
- : to talk idly, especially about the affairs of others; go about tattling.
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gos·siped or gos·sipped, gos·sip·ing or gos·sip·ping.
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Examples
The dining room, once an outlet for gossip and intrigue, was shuttered and the theater room padlocked.
Quick chats, catching up over coffee, hallway gossip, late-night laughs with loved ones can be the best gifts of life.
There’s still a little spark of gossip here, names dropped, and stories propped up and left on the roadside for embarrassment or for examination.
Bartenders still hear the world, and while that resonance would normally include a mixture of hearsay, local gossip and drowsy one-liners, it has now become a storm of collective struggle.
Farewell to the gossip dispensed at the break room coffee machine.
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
“Women go to the bathroom together and gossip, talk and argue all the time,” Vithi Cuc told The National.
Since I was toiling away at the time as a gossip columnist for The Washington Post, I immediately called him back.
And they sound like gulls, you know, when they sit and gossip in a bar together.
The mayor and Biasi are a popular topic of gossip in Matamoros.
He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.