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casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true:

｟非難して｠ «…についての» うわさ話, 陰口, 悪口; (新聞･雑誌の)ゴシップ(記事) «about»

e.g. he became the subject of much local gossip.

chiefly derogatory a person who likes talking about other people's private lives.

｟非難して｠ うわさ話［ゴシップ］好きの人

verb (gossips, gossiping, gossiped) no object

engage in gossip:

〈人が〉 «人と/…について» うわさ話［雑談］をする «with/about» ; «…について» ゴシップ記事を書く «about»

e.g. they would start gossiping about her as soon as she left.

gossiper |ˈɡäsəpər| noun

late Old English godsibb, ‘godfather, godmother, baptismal sponsor’, literally ‘a person related to one in God’, from god ‘God’ + sibb ‘a relative’ (see sib). In Middle English the sense was ‘a close friend, a person with whom one gossips’, hence ‘a person who gossips’, later (early 19th century) ‘idle talk’ (from the verb, which dates from the early 17th century).