gossip meaning

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Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act of gossipping is also known as dishing or tattling.
Gossip has been researched in terms of its evolutionary psychology origins. This has found gossip to be an important means by which people can monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity.
With the advent of the internet, gossip is now widespread on an instant basis, from one place in the world to another what used to take a long time to filter through is now instant.

Definition of gossip in English Dictionary

NounPLgossips
1. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
VerbSGgossipsPRgossipingPRgossippingPT, PPgossipedPT, PPgossipped
1. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - It says in the Torah that both gossip and murder cause irreparable damage.
  - I wouldn't put it past him to spread malicious gossip about you.
  - BBC America recently ran a documentary called “Paparazzi” that also disabused viewers of any lingering impression that gossip rags are run by gentlemen and scholars.