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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions
   - chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest [N. Amer], tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag [Brit], chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie
    
2. A report (often malicious) about the behaviour of other people
   "the divorce caused much gossip";
   - comment, scuttlebutt [N. Amer], goss [Brit]
    
3. A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
   - gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger [US], rumourmonger [Brit, Cdn], newsmonger

1. Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
   "She won't gossip";
   - dish the dirt
    
2. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and gossiping";
   - chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], visit, gas, gab

Derived forms: gossiped, gossiping, gossips

Type of: account, chat, chin-wag [Brit], communicator, confab, confabulation, converse, discourse, natter, report, schmoose, schmooze, speak, talk

Encyclopedia: Gossip