Dictionary

gossipy en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English gossip Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gossipy From gossip + -y.

Meanings

1. Prone to gossip.
   • ‘Tell me who you saw and what they said,’ she says, in one of her gossipy moods. 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 414:
2. Containing much gossip.
   • In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life. 1988 December 11, Elizabeth Pincus, “Truman Capote: The Gossip, The Dirt”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:

Forms

Deriveds

gossipiness · gossipily · ungossipy

Translations (15)

az qeybətcil (prone to gossip) · sv skvallrig (prone to gossip) · es chismoso (prone to gossip) · pl bajczarski (prone to gossip) · pl plotkarski (prone to gossip) · roa-gis zzuriuner (prone to gossip) · pt mexeriqueiro (prone to gossip) · tl palatsismis (prone to gossip) · ca xafarder (prone to gossip) · es cotilla (prone to gossip) · eo ĉikanema (prone to gossip) · sv skvalleraktig (prone to gossip) · it pettegolo (prone to gossip) · pt fofoqueiro (prone to gossip) · eo klaĉema (prone to gossip)