Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.

A losing Gamester, who is obliged to drive into the City to dispose of a little South Sea Stock, gives the Hint there. The Gossips at Garraway’s have it in a Moment: At One it is buzz’d on Change, and the circulating Whisper in the Boxes interrupts the Play at Night.

He was an arrant old gossip, too; for ever coming off in his canoe to the ships in the bay, and regaling their crews with choice little morsels of court scandal […]

Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street. He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.

According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.

I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.

The smaller a town the more richly it hums with gossip. There are no private affairs here. Gossip is the air we breathe.

Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed in the area. Gossip washed in, washed out, came, went, moved on to the next target.

Should a great Lady, that was invited to be a Gossip, in her place send her Kitchen-Maid, ’twould be ill taken;

When a man stood sponsor for a child at baptism, he became the child's godfather, and gossip to the parents.

Gossips accepted responsibility for the child's spiritual and physical well-being, […]

He was old and infirm, he wrote, and Gossip Death was waiting for him on the moor; but before he went to join him he would like to see Susan’s boy again.

Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will.

The Pleasure I used to take in telling my Boy Stories of the Battles, and asking my Girl Questions about the Disposal of her Baby, and the Gossiping of it, is turned into inward Reflection and Melancholy.

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