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Meanings of gossip in English
Light informal conversation for social occasions.
Catalan
tafaner A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.
Synonyms
Examples for "visit"
Examples for "visit"
1
You want to visit my house and my 'family,' well and good.
2
In fact, he could visit a few years later, the paper said.
3
If you or a friend need help visit 13reasonswhy.info for crisis resources.
4
How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape?
5
In April this year, Kagame made a four-day state visit to Germany.
1
I could tell by the way his jaw started working double time.
2
But Brun's set jaw and hard look of determination left no doubt.
3
I really want to have a future my jaw hit the floor.
4
McAuliffe's words landed like a roundhouse right on the Clintons' collective jaw.
5
The set of her jaw told him everything Dougal needed to know.
1
Finnish technology group Radiolinja has launched the first GSM text chat service.
2
No, no; that would be luxurious; let us chat in the dark.
3
I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with me today.
4
The paper recommended digital, app-based support, text-based chat support and increased telehealth.
5
The team also launched a chat service to aid users still affected.
1
The most obvious sign is the increasing chatter about a second referendum.
2
A certain amount of preliminary social chatter was required at this point.
3
There were hints of it in the social chatter of the papers.
4
The chatter this year is that it's the best start in decades.
5
Around this industry, large numbers had gathered simply to watch and chatter.
1
Yet it's unlikely one will emerge from the U.N. climate change confab.
2
He and the nurse are having a confab in the next room.
3
The young ladies were sitting by the emptied hampers, deep in confab.
4
Once on the street a lively confab ensued, all talking at once.
5
Following this there was a jangling confab which was almost a riot.
1
The hubbub and chaffer of it all went on the day long.
2
Some of the rabble began to chaffer with this ancient hucksteress.
3
There was a business chaffer, and the affair was virtually settled.
4
Let us hear them threaten, and whimper, and chaffer among themselves.
5
You make him go out into the market and chaffer for his bread!
1
We head for various hostelries around Belfast for a good old natter.
2
When the natter was explained to the section manager, he chuckled and said.
3
He had a good old natter to Kim Hill in 2012.
4
We had us a natter, and then the UPS truck come.
5
It did not natter her, or minister to her self-respect.
1
Do you think this business is not bad enough already, that you are making it worse with your senseless claver?
2
He clavers them over with flattery as the snake clavers the rabbit.
3
The man behind the billboards is Claver Kamau-Imani, head of Raging Elephants.
4
Prominent civil society activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa said protests would resume.
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Prominent activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa said some had bullet wounds.
1
The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.
2
An' whut dem six ghostes do but stand round an' confabulate?
3
If I must confabulate with gentlemen of your kidney, I prefer to keep it dark.
4
So Ms. Rakir could call ahead and confabulate a closure, or flood the dig site, or report a quarantine?
5
In this manner, said my master, did the parson and I confabulate; and I set him down at his lodgings in the village.
1
Is the Chairman going to drop by again to chew the fat with you?
2
Then they'd chew the fat over a sponsored BBQ dinner.
3
The drivers, too, liked his sociability and cheery manner and stayed to chew the fat.
4
I might want to chew the fat later.
5
Fred hadn't just come to chew the fat.
1
He didn't shoot the breeze at the nightly Camp 4 bull sessions.
2
We even get together once a week to hang out, shoot the breeze.
3
Everyone wanted to sit, hang out and shoot the breeze with Bill Clinton.
4
He got a reputation as a hard charger who didn't shoot the breeze.
5
I don't really have time to shoot the breeze right now, and neither should you.
Usage of gossip in English
1
Lanelle gaped for a moment longer; then gossip won out over suspicion.
2
Still, there was bar talk and clerical gossip and talk among spouses.
3
I am long past the point of worrying about gossip and scandal.
4
She has listened to servants' gossip and taken it for the truth.
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She never grew weary of hearing the latest political news or gossip.
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Yeah, for about five minutes every day: local headlines, sports, celebrity gossip.
7
Popular Alpine snack in Viennese cafés with coffee gossip in the afternoon.
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By the time Todd heard the gossip, Gordon had already taken off.
9
Social media has also become a very useful place to gather gossip.
10
Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour.
11
I want to help save the city, not run around carrying gossip.
12
When you want the very latest gossip on anything, ask a reporter.
13
Primarily gossip was harmless; to-day it is still harmless in some quarters.
14
In the age of discipline, watercooler gossip has taken a pious turn.
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In the first place, there is no vice of necessity in gossip.
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Where will you find the best parenting advice, gossip, information and friendship?
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Translations for gossip
Catalan
Gossip through the time
Gossip across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
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South Africa
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