Dictionary Entry
gossip
gossip is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
- 2noun
A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
- 3noun
One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
- 4noun
The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
- 5transitive verb
To stand sponsor to.
- 6intransitive verb
To make merry.
- 7intransitive verb
To prate; to chat; to talk much.
- 8intransitive verb
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
- 9noun
light informal conversation for social occasions
- 10noun
a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
"the divorce caused much gossip"
Synonyms
- 11noun
a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
- 12verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
"the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
- 13verb
wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
"She won't dish the dirt"
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