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gossip
noun as in talk about others; rumor
Strong matches
account, babble, blather, blether, calumny, chronicle, clothesline, cry, defamation, earful, grapevine, injury, meddling, prate, prattle, report, scuttlebutt, story, talk, wire
Weak matches
back-fence talk, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, idle talk, malicious talk, small talk, whispering campaign
noun as in person who talks a lot, spreads
Strong matches
blabbermouth, busybody, chatterbox, chatterer, flibbertigibbet, gossipmonger, informer, meddler, newsmonger, parrot, prattler, rumormonger, scandalmonger, snoop, talebearer, tattler, telltale
Weak matches
verb as in talk about others; spread rumors
Strongest match
Strong matches
babble, blather, blether, chat, chatter, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, prate, prattle, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spread, suggest, talk, tattle
Weak matches
bad-mouth, bend one's ear, cut to pieces, cut up, rattle on, spill the beans, talk idly, tell secrets, tell tales, wiggle-waggle
Example Sentences
Stories about him appeared almost daily in the New York Post gossip column Page Six.
"No-one has been able to nail down who exactly has benefited. It’s almost like a beer parlour gossip about who is getting what," says Toyin Akinosho of the Africa Oil+Gas Report.
Because of his omnipresence in Hollywood, Jones became a repository of gossip and anecdotes.
Here's some of the gossip we picked up along the way.
He took aim at the liberal nonprofit Campaign for Accountability and the research firm Fusion GPS, the source of the infamous Steele dossier, which contained unverified gossip about Trump.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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