What (who) is Gossip - definition

IDLE TALK OR RUMOR, ESPECIALLY ABOUT PERSONAL OR PRIVATE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS

Gossips; Workplace gossip; Cattiness; Tattle; Office gossip; Gossipping

gossip

1) to spread gossip

2) common; idle; malicious, vicious; silly gossip

3) a piece, tidbit (AE), titbit (BE) of gossip

4) gossip about

5) gossip that + clause (have you heard the gossip that he intends to resign?)

v. (D; intr.) to gossip about

Gossip

·vi To make merry.

II. Gossip ·vt To stand sponsor to.

III. Gossip ·noun A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

IV. Gossip ·noun The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

V. Gossip ·vi To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

VI. Gossip ·noun A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

VII. Gossip ·noun One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

VIII. Gossip ·vi To Prate; to Chat; to talk much.

gossip

I. n.

Tattler, babbler, chatterer, gadabout, idle talker.

Chat, chit-chat, tattle, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, small talk , idle talk.

II. v. n.

Chat, tattle, prate, prattle, gabble, clack, cackle, talk idly.

Wikipedia

Gossip

Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling.

Gossip is a topic of research in evolutionary psychology, which has found gossip to be an important means for people to monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity. Indirect reciprocity is a social interaction in which one actor helps another and is then benefited by a third party. Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups.

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