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語源

Compound of rumor +‎ monger.

名詞

rumormonger (plural rumormongers)

1. (American spelling) A person who spreads rumors.

   Synonyms: rumorer, rumourer

   Near-synonyms: gossipmonger, newsmonger, scandalmonger; blabbermouth, talebearer, telltale; gossip, gossiper; see also Thesaurus:gossiper

   • 1947, Murray Morgan, Bridge To Russia: Those Amazing Aleutians, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 161:

     Then the Seventh moved to Fort Ord and practiced—although without full equipment—amphibious landings. The hot poop of the rumor mongers became, “Southwest Pacific for us, fellows.” But when the convoy sailed from San Francisco on April twenty-fourth, the ships turned north.

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動詞

rumormonger (third-person singular simple present rumormongers, present participle rumormongering, simple past and past participle rumormongered)

1. To spread rumors and gossip.