gossipとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒs.ɪp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑs.ɪp/
• ハイフネーション: gos‧sip

名詞

gossip (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 gossips)

1. (countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

   Synonyms: busybody, gossipmonger, meddler, rumormonger; see also Thesaurus:gossiper

   Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.

   • 1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal‎^[1], volume 1, No. 11:

     A losing Gamester, who is obliged to drive into the City to dispose of a little South Sea Stock, gives the Hint there. The Gossips at Garraway’s have it in a Moment: At One it is buzz’d on Change, and the circulating Whisper in the Boxes interrupts the Play at Night.

   • 1846, Herman Melville, “Sequel Containing the Story of Toby”, in Typee‎^[2]:

     He was an arrant old gossip, too; for ever coming off in his canoe to the ships in the bay, and regaling their crews with choice little morsels of court scandal […]

   • 1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 48, in East of Eden‎^[3], London: Heinemann:

     Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street. He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.

2. (uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.

   Synonyms: dirt, hearsay, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt; see also Thesaurus:rumor

   According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.

   I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.

   • 1818, Jane Austen, chapter 18, in Persuasion‎^[4]:

     […] the thing is certainly true. It is not a mere bit of gossip. We have it from Frederick himself.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don’t adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]

   • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Waiting for the Barbarians‎^[5], Penguin, 1982:

     The smaller a town the more richly it hums with gossip. There are no private affairs here. Gossip is the air we breathe.

   • 2018, Anna Burns, chapter 1, in Milkman‎^[6], London: Faber & Faber:

     Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed in the area. Gossip washed in, washed out, came, went, moved on to the next target.

3. (uncountable) Idle conversation in general.

   Synonyms: chat, chinwag, chit-chat, natter; see also Thesaurus:chatter

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 38, in Little Women‎^[7]:

     The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.

4. (uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.

   a gossip columnist

   a gossip blog

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

5. (now only historical) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of a child.

   Synonyms: sponsor, godsib

   Hyponyms: godfather, godmother

   • c. 1594,, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona‎^[8], Act 3, Scene 1:

     ’tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips [i.e. she could not be a virgin, because she has children with godparents]

   • 1689, John Selden, Table-Talk‎^[9], London: Jacob Tonson et al., 1696, “Prayer”:

     Should a great Lady, that was invited to be a Gossip, in her place send her Kitchen-Maid, ’twould be ill taken;

   • 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela‎^[10], London: for the author, Volume 3, Letter 38:

     It seems, Miss, that if he stood not himself, or procur’d not Gossips for the Christening of the Children of his poorer Tenants, he always sent them a large rich Cake […]

   • 1908, Patrick Weston Joyce, A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, page 287:

     When a man stood sponsor for a child at baptism, he became the child's godfather, and gossip to the parents.

   • 2010, Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England, Penn State Press (→ISBN), page 154:

     Gossips accepted responsibility for the child's spiritual and physical well-being,  […]

6. (obsolete) A familiar acquaintance.

   Synonym: friend

   • c. 1612,, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII‎^[11], Act 5, Scene 5:

     My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
     I thank ye heartily;

7. (obsolete) Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.
   • c. 1600,, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor‎^[12], Act 4, Scene 2:

     What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!

   • 1905, William John Locke, chapter 11, in The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne‎^[13]:

     He was old and infirm, he wrote, and Gossip Death was waiting for him on the moor; but before he went to join him he would like to see Susan’s boy again.

派生語

動詞

gossip (三人称単数 現在形 gossips, 現在分詞 gossiping または gossipping, 過去形および過去分詞形 gossiped または gossipped)

1. (intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.

   Synonyms: blab, dish the dirt, spill the tea, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling‎^[14], Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 4:

     This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England.

   • 1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in Memento Mori‎^[15], New York: Time-Life, 1964:

     Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will.

2. (intransitive) To talk idly.

   Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chinwag, natter, prattle, shoot the breeze

   • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 14, in Three Men in a Boat‎^[16]:

     […] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;

   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[17]:

     "Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still."

3. (obsolete) To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well‎^[18], Act 1, Scene 1:

     […] a world
     Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names],
     That blinking Cupid gossips.

   • 1709, Richard Steele, “No. 95 in The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff”, in The Tatler‎^[19], London, 1712:

     The Pleasure I used to take in telling my Boy Stories of the Battles, and asking my Girl Questions about the Disposal of her Baby, and the Gossiping of it, is turned into inward Reflection and Melancholy.

4. (obsolete) To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John‎^[20], Act 5, Scene 2:

     […] those baby eyes
     That never saw the giant world enraged;
     Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,
     Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.