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Definition of gossip verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

gossip

verb
 
/ˈɡɒsɪp/
 
/ˈɡɑːsɪp/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they gossip
 
/ˈɡɒsɪp/
 
/ˈɡɑːsɪp/
he / she / it gossips
 
/ˈɡɒsɪps/
 
/ˈɡɑːsɪps/
past simple gossiped
 
/ˈɡɒsɪpt/
 
/ˈɡɑːsɪpt/
past participle gossiped
 
/ˈɡɒsɪpt/
 
/ˈɡɑːsɪpt/
-ing form gossiping
 
/ˈɡɒsɪpɪŋ/
 
/ˈɡɑːsɪpɪŋ/
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  1. to talk about other people’s private lives, often in an unkind way
    • I can't stand here gossiping all day.
    • gossip about somebody/something People have been gossiping about you.
    Word Originlate Old English godsibb, ‘godfather, godmother, baptismal sponsor’, literally ‘a person related to one in God’, from god ‘God’ + sibb ‘a relative’ (see sib). In Middle English the sense was ‘a close friend, a person with whom one gossips’, hence ‘a person who gossips’, later (early 19th cent.) ‘idle talk’ (from the verb, which dates from the early 17th cent.).
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