gossipy

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gos·sip

(gŏs′əp)

1. Rumor or talk of a personal, sensational, or intimate nature.

2. A person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts.

3. Trivial, chatty talk or writing.

4. A close friend or companion.

5. Chiefly British A godparent.

intr.v. gos·siped, gos·sip·ing, gos·sips

To engage in or spread gossip: gossiped about the neighbors.

[Middle English godsib, gossip, godparent, from Old English godsibb : god, god; see god + sibb, kinsman; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.]

gos′sip·er n.

gos′sip·ry n.

gos′sip·y adj.

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Adj.

gossipy - prone to friendly informal communication

chatty, newsy

communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray

gossipy

adjective

Inclined to gossip:

blabby, talebearing, taletelling.

Translations

مُحب للقيل والقال

upovídaný

tratschsüchtig

pletykás

slúîurgjarn

dedikoducu

爱闲聊的

gossipy

[ˈgɒsɪpɪ] ADJ → de cotilleo, chismoso; [style] → familiar, anecdótico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gossipy

[ˈgɒsɪpi] adj

[book, account] → plein(e) de bavardages

[person] → cancanier/ière

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gossipy

adj person → geschwätzig; book, letter → im Plauderton geschrieben; the gossipy world of publishing → die klatschsüchtige Welt des Verlagswesens; a long gossipy phone call → ein langer Schwatz or Tratsch am Telefon (inf); gossipy style → Plauderton m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gossipy

[ˈgɒsɪpɪ] adj

a. (pej) → pettegolo/a
a gossipy letter → una lettera piena di pettegolezzi

b. (tone) → frivolo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

gossip

(ˈgosip) noun

1. talk about other people's affairs, not always truthful. I never pay any attention to gossip.

2. a chat. She dropped in for a cup of coffee and a gossip.

3. a person who listens to and passes on gossip. She's a dreadful gossip.

verb

1. to pass on gossip.

2. to chat.

ˈgossipy adjective

fond of gossiping. gossipy neighbours.

gossip column

an article in a newspaper etc containing gossip about famous people.

References in classic literature ?

Madame Selarne was in a gossipy mood and they found many mutual acquaintances.

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Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a counte- nance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air -- he couldn't even see him.

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And I don't think a whole lot of those gossipy old porpoises either.

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"What is the news?" said the gossipy tinker, pricking up his ear; "I am a tinker by trade, Middle by name, and come from over against Banbury."

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By apparently careless and purposeless questioning I learned from my gossipy landlady that the young woman's bedroom adjoined my own, a party-wall between.

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"Ned writes good, gossipy letters I taught him how and he tells me all that 's going on.

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He's led his gossipy neighbour to believe he has cancer and people are stopping me in the street to commiserate.

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This breezy, even gossipy account of two centuries of alpine adventure is a good introduction to the vast literature on the topic.

Fleming, Fergus. Killing dragons; the conquest of the Alps

STARS IN MY EYES by Don Bachardy (The University of Wisconsin Press, $34,95) An astute portraitist as well as the life partner of the late Christopher Isherwood, Bachardy also shows a great memory for gossipy detail in his anecdotes about the celebrities--including Bette Davis--who sat for him.

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If he comes over in public as he does in private - a jokey, gossipy, football-mad family guy - then he'll knock David Cameron off his bike.

KEVIN MAGUIRE'S VERDICT

The life of a high-school freshman princess, it seems, is fraught with peril--and also with lots of funny and gossipy details about boys, dresses, and famous people: Martha Stewart helps Mia with her Halloween costume, for example.

Cabot, Meg. Princess in the spotlight

A quarrelsome, gossipy lot, these writers are the real focus of our interest as we read, partly because Picano has gleefully cast his colleagues--men we've come to know as heroic messengers of the good gay word--as slightly smarmy old queens.