Thesaurus:gossip

Thesaurus

gossip

English

Verb

Sense: to talk about someone else's private or personal business

Synonyms

• blab
• chelp (British dialect)
• clepe (dialect)
• dish (slang)
• dish the dirt
• fetch and carry
• gossip
• jaunder (British dialect)
• labrish (Jamaica)
• shoot the shit (vulgar, slang, idiomatic)
• talk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• talk out of turn (idiomatic)
• tattle    [⇒ thesaurus]
• tell tales out of school (idiomatic)
• tittle-tattle

Hypernyms

• speak    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• word has it

See also

• Thesaurus:prattle (verb)
• Thesaurus:rat out (verb)
• Thesaurus:gossiper (noun, person)
• Thesaurus:tattle (noun)

Further reading

• “588. conversation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “gossip” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.