gossipy

English

Etymology

From gossip +‎ -y.

Adjective

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.

Translations

prone to gossip

• Azerbaijani: qeybətcil
• Catalan: xafarder (ca)
• Esperanto: ĉikanema (archaic), klaĉema
• Gallo-Italic of Sicily: zzuriuner
• Italian: pettegolo (it)
• Polish: bajczarski, plotkarski (pl)
• Portuguese: mexeriqueiro (pt), fofoqueiro (pt)
• Spanish: cotilla (es), chismoso (es)
• Swedish: skvalleraktig (sv), skvallrig (sv)
• Tagalog: palatsismis