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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gossipy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gossipy magazine
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A four- or five-minute interview on a gossipy level, quite cheeky and witty and charming I've no doubt.
▪ Excerpts from the book proposal, published on Inside.com, a gossipy website, only heightened the mystery.
▪ Suddenly it all seemed so small, so gossipy, so young, narrow, incestuous.
▪ There is something gossipy and gay about him.
▪ You need to be either in the charts or heading that way to earn space in those gossipy pages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gossipy

Gossipy \Gos"sip*y\, a. Full of, or given to, gossip.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gossipy

1818, from gossip (n.) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
gossipy

a. Prone to gossip.

WordNet
gossipy

adj. prone to friendly informal communication [syn: chatty, newsy]

Usage examples of "gossipy".

I have received a few unconfirmed rumors from the north, but then, you and I both know that warfare is always abrim with rumors, warriors being as gossipy as old women.

He wrote to Lizzie, inconsequential letters with formal endearments, and received volumes of gossipy pages in response, filled with trivia about Florence, and The Forks, and the extravagances of her mother.

Maggie nodded with satisfaction, then prepared to call on a gossipy woman who was an expert on the upper levels of Bonapartist society.

So Maia and Leie had decided to stay at sea awhile, with the sailors and drifter-folk, until they found some rustic town where local mothers were gullible, and male visitors more taciturn than the gossipy, bearded cretins who sailed the Parthenia Sea.

She was bound to run into Cameron and his parents and their gossipy friends.

But all I've got is the company of other army wives, and we get bored with one another after a few gossipy afternoon teas.

She had sometimes envied humans the privacy they could build around their lives and resented the gossipy invasiveness of her own culture.

She had never paid much attention to the gossipy newsflashes, with their emphasis on fashion and celebrity.