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gossiping

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

流言蜚语,闲聊,八卦,闲谈

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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.

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Examples

  • The dining room, once an outlet for gossip and intrigue, was shuttered and the theater room padlocked.

  • Quick chats, catching up over coffee, hallway gossip, late-night laughs with loved ones can be the best gifts of life.

  • There’s still a little spark of gossip here, names dropped, and stories propped up and left on the roadside for embarrassment or for examination.

  • Bartenders still hear the world, and while that resonance would normally include a mixture of hearsay, local gossip and drowsy one-liners, it has now become a storm of collective struggle.

  • Farewell to the gossip dispensed at the break room coffee machine.

  • However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

  • “Women go to the bathroom together and gossip, talk and argue all the time,” Vithi Cuc told The National.

  • Since I was toiling away at the time as a gossip columnist for The Washington Post, I immediately called him back.

  • And they sound like gulls, you know, when they sit and gossip in a bar together.

  • The mayor and Biasi are a popular topic of gossip in Matamoros.

  • He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

  • Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.

  • He returned to the hotel, and, eluding a gossip-seeking landlady, went up to his room.

  • He talked a good deal on various topics, a little politics, some city news and neighborhood gossip.

  • In spite of the character bestowed upon her by her old friend, Mrs. Barford dearly loved a bit of gossip.