Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gossip
Participle: gossipped
Gerund: gossipping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gossip |
| you | gossip |
| he;she;it | gossips |
| we | gossip |
| you | gossip |
| they | gossip |
Perfect
| I | have gossipped |
| you | have gossipped |
| he;she;it | has gossipped |
| we | have gossipped |
| you | have gossipped |
| they | have gossipped |
Past
| I | gossipped |
| you | gossipped |
| he;she;it | gossipped |
| we | gossipped |
| you | gossipped |
| they | gossipped |
Pluperfect
| I | had gossipped |
| you | had gossipped |
| he;she;it | had gossipped |
| we | had gossipped |
| you | had gossipped |
| they | had gossipped |
Future
| I | will gossip |
| you | will gossip |
| he;she;it | will gossip |
| we | will gossip |
| you | will gossip |
| they | will gossip |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gossipped |
| you | will have gossipped |
| he;she;it | will have gossipped |
| we | will have gossipped |
| you | will have gossipped |
| they | will have gossipped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gossip |
| you | gossip |
| he;she;it | gossip |
| we | gossip |
| you | gossip |
| they | gossip |
Perfect
| I | have gossipped |
| you | have gossipped |
| he;she;it | have gossipped |
| we | have gossipped |
| you | have gossipped |
| they | have gossipped |
Imperfect
| I | gossipped |
| you | gossipped |
| he;she;it | gossipped |
| we | gossipped |
| you | gossipped |
| they | gossipped |
Pluperfect
| I | had gossipped |
| you | had gossipped |
| he;she;it | had gossipped |
| we | had gossipped |
| you | had gossipped |
| they | had gossipped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gossip |
| you | would gossip |
| he;she;it | would gossip |
| we | would gossip |
| you | would gossip |
| they | would gossip |
Perfect
| I | would have gossipped |
| you | would have gossipped |
| he;she;it | would have gossipped |
| we | would have gossipped |
| you | would have gossipped |
| they | would have gossipped |
Imperative
| you | gossip |
| we | Let's gossip |
| you | gossip |
Verbs conjugated like 'gossip'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gossip'
boss,
coosin,
cosset,
disship,
dogsit,
doss,
enship,
fossick,
gasp,
gesse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- be loquacious; tattle; gossip
- clepe, chatter
- to talk about someone else's private or personal business
- blab, chelp, clepe, dish, dish the dirt, jaunder, labrish, shoot the shit, talk out of turn, tattle, tell tales out of school, tittle-tattle
- To create scandal
- talk
- tattle
- prattle, chatter, blab, palaver, noise, prate, rumor
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. godsibb "godparent," from God + sibb "relative" (see sibling). Extended in M.E. to "any familiar acquaintance" (1362), especially to woman friends invited to attend a birth, later to "anyone engaging in familiar or idle talk" (1566). Sense extended 1811 to "trifling talk, groundless rumor." The verb meaning "to talk idly about the affairs of others" is from 1627.
2. From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense evolution to "gossip, discussing others' personal affairs," compare French commérage.
Sample Sentences
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This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England. [1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 4, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II, page 66:]
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Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will. [1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in Memento Mori, New York: Time-Life, 1964, page 109:]
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[…] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics; [1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 14, in Three Men in a Boat […] :]
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"Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still." [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
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[…] a world
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Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names],
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That blinking Cupid gossips. [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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The Pleasure I used to take in telling my Boy Stories of the Battles, and asking my Girl Questions about the Disposal of her Baby, and the Gossiping of it, is turned into inward Reflection and Melancholy. [1709, Richard Steele, “No. 95 in The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff”, in The Tatler, London, 1712, page 282:]
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[…] those baby eyes
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That never saw the giant world enraged;
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Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,
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Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]