gossip
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Sense: Verb: talk about others
Synonyms:
chat Collocations, chatter Collocations, talk Collocations, tattle, tittle-tattle, tell all, talk about sb behind their back, talk idly, prattle, blab , spread a story all over town , dish the dirt , chinwag , have a chinwag , spill the beans , spread rumors, spread rumours
Sense: Noun: petty talk about others
Synonyms:
rumor, rumour , chatter Collocations, malicious talk, talk Collocations, dirt Collocations , idle talk, hearsay, scandal, news Collocations, buzz Collocations, tittle-tattle , chitchat , baseless rumor, baseless rumour , unfounded rumor, unfounded rumour , scuttlebutt , the talk of the town, whispering campaign
Sense: Noun: person who indulges in petty talk
Synonyms:
babbler, busybody , telltale , tattletale , tattler , blabbermouth , bigmouth , eavesdropper, gossipmonger, scandalmonger