- chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie - light informal conversation for social occasions
--1 is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
Derived form: verb gossip2 - gossip, comment, scuttlebutt - a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"
--2 is a kind of report, account
--2 has particulars:earful; rumor, rumour, hearsay; grapevine, pipeline, word of mouth; scandal, dirt, malicious gossip; talk, talk of the town Derived form: verb gossip1 - gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger - a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
--3 is a kind of communicator
--3 has particulars:cat; scandalmonger; tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth; yenta Derived form: verb gossip1
- dish the dirt, gossip - wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt"
--1 is one way to talk, speak
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun gossiper1, noun gossip3, noun gossip2, noun gossiping1
Sam and Sue gossip
Sam wants to gossip with Sue
- chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
--2 is one way to converse, discourse
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun gossip1
Somebody ----s