gossiphood

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship. rare,uncountable
    — XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood.
  2. Gossip; idle talk. rare,uncountable
    — […] while my Lord Storford had already approved himself too staunch a knight, too honourable a gentleman, and too graceful a courtier, for much surprise to await the Lady Mildred's second choice, either in the prattling gossiphood of the shire of Gloucester, or the more solemn discussions of the antechambers of Westminster.

词汇关系

近义词
gossipred

词源

From gossip + -hood.
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