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gossiping

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɡɒs.ɪ.pɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈɡɑs.ɪ.pɪŋ//

The act of passing gossip; communication about other people's private business.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of gossippresent participle and gerund of gossip

noun

  1. 1

    The act of passing gossip; communication about other people's private business.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA christening.

    At Wendlebury and other places they bring their Cakes at a Gossiping, and give a large cake to the father of the child, wᶜʰ they call a Rocking Cake.

    Another woman was returning late one night from a gossiping.

Forms

plural
gossipings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).