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Traditional English :: gossip
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gossiper.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a easy or unconstrained talk or writing esp. about persons or social incidents. b idle talk; groundless rumour.
2 an informal chat, esp. about persons or social incidents.
3 a person who indulges in gossip. --v.intr. (gossiped, gossiping) talk or write gossip. gossip column a section of a newspaper devoted to gossip about well-known people. gossip columnist a regular writer of gossip columns. gossip-monger a perpetrator of gossip. gossiper n. gossipy adj. [earlier sense 'godparent': f. OE godsibb person related to one in GOD: see SIB] |
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Traditional English :: gossip
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gossiper.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a easy or unconstrained talk or writing esp. about persons or social incidents. b idle talk; groundless rumour.
2 an informal chat, esp. about persons or social incidents.
3 a person who indulges in gossip. --v.intr. (gossiped, gossiping) talk or write gossip. gossip column a section of a newspaper devoted to gossip about well-known people. gossip columnist a regular writer of gossip columns. gossip-monger a perpetrator of gossip. gossiper n. gossipy adj. [earlier sense 'godparent': f. OE godsibb person related to one in GOD: see SIB] |
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Traditional English :: gossamer
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gossiper.html - n. & adj. --n. 1 a filmy substance of small spiders' webs.
2 delicate filmy material.
3 a thread of gossamer. --adj. gossamered adj. gossamery adj. [ME gos(e)somer(e), app. f. GOOSE + SUMMER(1) (goose summer = St Martin's summer, i.e. early November when geese were eaten, gossamer being common then)] |
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Traditional English :: gossip
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gossiper.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a easy or unconstrained talk or writing esp. about persons or social incidents. b idle talk; groundless rumour.
2 an informal chat, esp. about persons or social incidents.
3 a person who indulges in gossip. --v.intr. (gossiped, gossiping) talk or write gossip. gossip column a section of a newspaper devoted to gossip about well-known people. gossip columnist a regular writer of gossip columns. gossip-monger a perpetrator of gossip. gossiper n. gossipy adj. [earlier sense 'godparent': f. OE godsibb person related to one in GOD: see SIB] |
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Traditional English :: gossoon
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gossiper.html - n.
Ir. a lad. [earlier garsoon f. F garúon boy] |
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English Idioms :: gosling
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gossiper.html - See: GONE GOOSE also GONE GOSLING. |
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