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Though used nowadays to denote one who delights in idle talk
or the conversation of such a person
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Though used nowadays to denote one who delights in idle talk
or the conversation of such a person
(
In Middle English, a
A series of circumstantial associations nudged
The multiple definitions of gossip can be seen in its various applications in early modern drama.
noble gossips(Shakespeare 5.5.13) while
a long-tongued, babbling gossip(Shakespeare 4.2.152). The Gossips in
gossiping[Middleton 2.1.169]) punctuate their (inebriated) conversation with repeated terms of address, so that
gossipbecomes an almost-onomatopoeic signifier of the sensitive information bandied about in their chatter:
3 GOSSIP. See gossip and she lies not in like a countess;Would I had such a husband for my daughter. 4 GOSSIP. Is not she toward marriage?3 GOSSIP. O no sweet gossip.3 GOSSIP. Ay that she was last Lammas,But she has a fault gossip, a secret fault.