Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gossiping
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ɑsəpɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gossiping, gossipmongering
    Meaning: a conversation that spreads personal information about other people
Usage examples
  • That the innumerable multitude of people who can do nothing of the kind, and who take no real interest in anything except spending money and gossiping, are to be really pitied, is true.
  • Also "Mac" was Peter's personal enemy; "Mac" had just returned from his organizing trip in the oil fields, and had been denouncing Peter and gossiping about him in the various radical groups.
  • There was one dapper little gentleman in bright-colored clothes, with a chirping gossiping expression of countenance, who had all the appearance of an author on good terms with his bookseller.
  • The other visitor was the leech or doctor, a thin, weasand little man, with a kindly, wrinkled face and a gossiping tongue, who, besides binding wounds, bleeding, and leeching, and administering his simple remedies to those who were taken sick in the castle, acted as the Baron's barber.