Gossip
A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
To stand sponsor to.
To make merry.
To prate; to chat; to talk much.
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
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Gossip Quotations
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
Johnny Depp
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
Walter Winchell
All literature is gossip.
Truman Capote
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
George Harrison
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
Earl Wilson
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
Robert Hughes
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Gloria Swanson
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
Justin Timberlake
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
Kate Adie
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
Elia Kazan
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
Barbara Kruger
Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.
Kathy Griffin
Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard
Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Tabitha Soren
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.
Zoe Saldana
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Gossip Translations
gossip in Afrikaans is klets
gossip in Dutch is kletsen, kwaadspreken
gossip in Latin is rumor, fama
gossip in Norwegian is sladder, sladre
gossip in Portuguese is bisbolhetice
gossip in Spanish is cotilleo
gossip in Swedish is sladder, skvallra, skvaller, skvaller
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