gossip

1. 1.

   wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies

   “She won't dish the dirt”

   Synonymsdish the dirt

   Broadertalk

   Narrowerrumor
2. 2.

   talk socially without exchanging too much information

   “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

   Synonymschew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatterchaffernatterjawclavervisit

   Broaderconverse

   Narrowershmooze

Other forms of gossip

plural

gossips·

past tense

gossipped·

present participle

gossipping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gossip

What does gossip mean?

gossip means "light informal conversation for social occasions". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gossip?

gossip has 2 syllables: gos-sip. The stress falls on "gos". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑsəp/.

What is another word for gossip?

Close synonyms include chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gossip a common word?

gossip is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.