Definition of Gossip

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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

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck

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

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

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
Johnny Depp

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce

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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