Definition of gossip

"gossip" in the noun sense

1. 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

2. gossip, comment, scuttlebutt

a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

"the divorce caused much gossip"

3. gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger

a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

"gossip" in the verb sense

1. dish the dirt, gossip

wag one's tongue speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies

"She won't dish the dirt"

2. 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"

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Quotations for gossip

Foul whisperings are abroad. [ William Shakespeare ]

The babbling gossip of the air. [ William Shakespeare ]

A long-tongued, babbling gossip! [ William Shakespeare ]

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are male as well as female gossips. [ Colton ]

How much an ill word may empoison liking! [ William Shakespeare ]

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. [ H. W. Shaw ]

He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? [ Milton ]

A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of her. [ Proverb ]

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. [ Fielding ]

Old gossips are usually young flirts gone to seed. [ J. L. Basford ]

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad as the tale-makers. [ Sheridan ]

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. [ Octave Feuillet ]

It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more. [ Thackeray ]

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest. [ Quarles ]

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. [ Rivarol ]

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. [ Emerson ]

If we should leave out of conversation scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity - what silence! [ Mme. Bachi ]

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo, - babbling gossips of the air. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. [ George Dawson ]

Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses. [ Emerson ]

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. [ Horace ]

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

gossip in Scrabble®

The word gossip is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters gossip:

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gossip in Words With Friends™

The word gossip is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters gossip:

GOSSIP
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Words within the letters of gossip

2 letter words in gossip (5 words)

3 letter words in gossip (7 words)

4 letter words in gossip (4 words)

6 letter words in gossip (1 word)

gossip + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence gossip

Words with gossip in them (1 word)

Words that end with gossip (1 word)

Word Growth involving gossip

Shorter words in gossip

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Longer words containing gossip

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