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

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

n. Trivial, chatty talk or writing.

n. A close friend or companion.

n. Chiefly British A godparent.

verb-intransitive. To engage in or spread gossip.

n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.

n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.

n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.

v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.

v. To talk idly.

n. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

n. A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

n. One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

n. The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

v. To stand sponsor to.

verb-intransitive. To make merry.

verb-intransitive. To prate; to chat; to talk much.

verb-intransitive. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

n. A sponsor; one who answers for a child in baptism; a godfather or godmother.

n. A friend or neighbor; an intimate companion.

n. One who goes about tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

n. Idle talk, as of one friend or acquaintance to another; especially, confidential or minutely personal remarks about other people; tattle; scandal; trifling or groundless report.

To be a boon companion.

To talk idly, especially about other people; chat; tattle.

To stand godfather to.

To repeat as gossip: as, to gossip scandal.

v. talk socially without exchanging too much information

n. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

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

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

n. light informal conversation for social occasions

"For the sake of this discussion, forget the negative connotations of the word gossip."

gossipping    gossips   

schmoose    schmooze    confabulation    chat    confab   

godparent    gossip's bridle   

sponsor    companion    prate    chat    converse    talk    tattle    tittle-tattle    chatter    prattle   

talk    joke    scandal    speculation    amusement    chatter    anecdote    news    criticism    humor