- viva-voce, word-of-mouth - expressed orally; "a viva-voce report"; "the film had good word-of-mouth publicity"
Antonym: written (indirect, via spoken)
- grapevine, pipeline, word of mouth - gossip spread by spoken communication; "the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth"
--1 is a kind of gossip, comment, scuttlebutt