gossip

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɒsɪp/    美 /ˈɡɑsɪp/|/ˈɡɑsəp/|/ˈɡɔsɪp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. countable
    — Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.
  2. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present. uncountable
    — According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.
  3. Idle conversation in general. uncountable
    — The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.
  4. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities. uncountable
    — a gossip columnist
  5. Communication done using a gossip protocol. countable,uncountable
  6. A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild. countable,historical,uncountable
    — ’tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips [i.e. she could not be a virgin, because she has children with godparents]
  7. A familiar acquaintance. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal: I thank ye heartily;
  8. Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!
动词 v.
  1. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information. intransitive
    — 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.
  2. To talk idly. intransitive
    — […] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;
  3. To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for. obsolete
    — […] a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names], That blinking Cupid gossips.
  4. To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry. obsolete
    — […] those baby eyes That never saw the giant world enraged; Nor met with fortune other than at feasts, Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.
  5. To communicate using a gossip protocol. intransitive

词形变化

gossips plural gossips present,singular,third-person gossiping participle,present gossipping participle,present,rare gossiped participle,past gossiped past gossipped participle,past,rare gossipped past,rare

词汇关系

近义词
blab cag chelp clepe dish dish the dirt fetch and carry gossip jaunder labrish shoot the shit talk talk out of turn tattle tell tales out of school tittle-tattle
上位词
speak
衍生词
cybergossip gossipee gossiper gossipfest gossipful gossiphood gossipish gossipless gossiplike gossiply gossip mill gossip mirror gossip-prone gossipred gossipy
相关词
word has it prattle rat out gossiper

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 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.
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