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Gossiping   /gˈɑsəpɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Gossip  v. t.  To stand sponsor to. (Obs.)


Gossip  v. i.  (past & past part. gossiped; pres. part. gossiping)  
1.
To make merry. (Obs.)
2.
To prate; to chat; to talk much.
3.
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.





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"Gossiping" Quotes from Famous Books



... "You've been gossiping with that young squirrel!" she snapped. "I'll have you know that I'm not shaken up at all. But I'd shake you up if I ...
— The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat - Slumber-Town Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... were the only parties within its walls. We were locked in from without: until the attendant returned and unclosed the door there was no possibility of either entering or quitting the dwelling. I was alone with the dead for upward of an hour—no enviable vigil—when it pleased her unfeeling and gossiping retainer to return and release me. Believe it, say you? I do believe it—and most firmly—as fact and ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... said Tarling, impatient and anxious to finish his conversation with this gossiping surgeon; ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... if you were forty, I should question its propriety; if you were thirty, I should veto it, and you are but a little more than twenty. How do you know that this stranger will not show your letter to anybody or everybody? How do you know that he will not send it to one of the gossiping journals like the 'Household Inquisitor'? But supposing he keeps it to himself, which is more than you have a right to expect, what opinion is he likely to form of a young lady who invades his privacy with ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... aforesaid dilapidated wharf, and the third looking across a narrow lane, and along a portion of Derby Street. All three give glimpses of the shops of grocers, block-makers, slop-sellers, and ship-chandlers, around the doors of which are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts, and such other wharf-rats as haunt the Wapping of a seaport. The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint; its floor is strewn with grey sand, in a fashion that has elsewhere fallen ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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