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gossiper

/gos-uhp/US // ˈgɒs əp //UK // (ˈɡɒsɪp) //

流言蜚语,流言蜚语者,绯闻者,流言家

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
    • : light, familiar talk or writing.
    • : Also gos·sip·er, gos·sip·per. a person given to tattling or idle talk.
    • : Chiefly British Dialect. a godparent.
    • : Archaic. a friend, especially a woman.
v.无主动词 verb
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    gos·siped or gos·sipped, gos·sip·ing or gos·sip·ping.

    • : to talk idly, especially about the affairs of others; go about tattling.
v.有主动词 verb
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    gos·siped or gos·sipped, gos·sip·ing or gos·sip·ping.

    • : Chiefly British Dialect. to stand godparent to.
    • : Archaic. to repeat like a gossip.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Every new report veered the vane on this old gossiper's steeple, and he went on believing one day and disbelieving the next.

  • The meal did not last long, for the aunt, who was a gossiper, was only serving delicatessen that evening.

  • Nothing worse can happen to the couple than to be discovered by this gossiper.

  • But in place of that he is only a gossiper, writing merely for the entertainment of a private circle.

  • The garrulous chroniclers, and saintly Bede himself, that primeval gossiper, afford abundant evidence of such secret revelations.