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Definition of Gossip
Gossip

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

To stand sponsor to.

To make merry.

To prate; to chat; to talk much.

To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

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Gossip Quotations

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Tabitha Soren

All literature is gossip.
Truman Capote

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Gossip Translations

gossip in Afrikaans is klets
gossip in Dutch is kletsen, kwaadspreken
gossip in Latin is rumor, fama
gossip in Norwegian is sladder, sladre
gossip in Portuguese is bisbolhetice
gossip in Spanish is cotilleo
gossip in Swedish is sladder, skvallra, skvaller, skvaller


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