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Gossiped

Gossip \Gos"sip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gossiped; p. pr. & vb. n. Gossiping.]

  1. To make merry. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. To prate; to chat; to talk much.
    --Shak.

  3. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

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gossiped

alt. (en-past of: gossip) vb. (en-past of: gossip)

Usage examples of "gossiped".

Those in the know - the core group of researchers in any field who spend a lot of time at conferences and seminars chatting about the state of the art - will simply disregard the anomalous result, or they will have gossiped it away in the bar after the meeting.

He liked it here, in this noisy neighborhood, with the bakery on the corner, the bazaarlike atmosphere on Canal, only a short walk away, the women who gossiped from their stoops in the morning, the men who sat there at night.

Between two games of boston, or out walking in the Jardin Turc, the old beldames with whom the widow gossiped all day had succeeded in rousing in their friend's stony heart some scruples as to her former life, some visions of the future, some fears of hell, and some hopes of forgiveness if she should return in sincerity to a religious life.

And because she never gossiped or quarrelled, or chaffered in the market, but went without what she could not afford, the people called her a witch, and would have done her many an ill turn if they had not been afraid of her.

Women fetched water, cooked over fires or in crude clay ovens, kneaded bread dough in wooden troughs, tended the swarming children, gossiped as they spun thread on their distaffs or sat to weave on broad looms with stone-weighted warps set under leather awnings.

That you might more easily believe, but if I gossiped like any old wife, who would trust me with his affairs?

The problem and the gossiped wonderment was how long the family name would carry him before he was punted into the outer darkness, a failed heir apparent.

Much is made of the altar stones and sacraria of temples, but nothing of the cloisters where lovers rendezvoused and friends gossiped, and the courtyards where children played.

It is probable that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal about the chief justice.

I landed at White Waltham before Colin arrived back from Windsor, and the other four yawned and gossiped, opening all the doors and fanning themselves.