Thesaurus:gossip
English
Verb
Sense: to talk about someone else's private or personal business
Synonyms
- blab
- cag (dialect, slang)
- chelp (British dialect)
- clepe (dialect)
- dish (slang)
- dish the dirt
- fetch and carry
- gossip
- jaunder (British dialect)
- labrish (Jamaica)
- shoot the shit (vulgar, slang, idiomatic)
- talk [⇒ thesaurus]
- talk out of turn (idiomatic)
- tattle [⇒ thesaurus]
- tell tales out of school (idiomatic)
- tittle-tattle
Hypernyms
Various
See also
- Thesaurus:prattle (verb)
- Thesaurus:rat out (verb)
- Thesaurus:gossiper (noun, person)
- Thesaurus:tattle (noun)
Further reading
- “588. conversation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “gossip” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.