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blether
noun as in gossip
Strong matches
noun as in talebearing
Weak matches
- account
- babble
- back-fence talk
- blather
- buzz
- calumny
- chatter
- chitchat
- chronicle
- clothesline
- conversation
- cry
- defamation
- dirty laundry
- dirty linen
- dirty wash
- earful
- gossipry
- grapevine
- hearsay
- idle talk
- injury
- malicious talk
- meddling
- news
- prate
- prattle
- report
- rumor
- scandal
- scuttlebutt
- slander
- small talk
- story
- tale
- talk
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
- whispering campaign
- wire
- word
verb as in gossip
verb as in tittle-tattle
Example Sentences
Julie said Caroline was "so big on family" and described her as a "wee blether" who loved to chat.
Anyway, enough club blether and back to the Euros.
Moreover, he has proved very adept at projecting that likability on stage – where what he refers to as his “blether” between songs occasionally lasts as long as the songs themselves – and on social media.
She was always late for class in the morning because she would stay back at breakfast club to blether.
"Of course, it's also a happy occasion in which to have a good blether and to swap the pleasures and pains of growing older."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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