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Etymology

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From gossip +‎ -y.

Adjective

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gossipy (comparative gossipier, superlative gossipiest)

  1. Prone to gossip.
    • 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 414:
      ‘Tell me who you saw and what they said,’ she says, in one of her gossipy moods.
  2. Containing much gossip.
    • 1988 December 11, Elizabeth Pincus, “Truman Capote: The Gossip, The Dirt”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:
      In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life.

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