gossip

Meanings

• light informal conversation for social occasions
• a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
  • "the divorce caused much gossip"
• a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
• wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
• talk socially without exchanging too much information

Synonyms

causerie, chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, comment, confab, confabulate, dish the dirt, gab, gabfest, gossiper, gossipmonger, jaw, natter, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, scuttlebutt, shoot the breeze, small talk, tittle-tattle, visit