His marriage, his movements, all were gossipped over from Maine to Georgia, the extreme points of the Union.
If I succeed in my object I shall consider that I have gossipped to some purpose.
And Flora devoutly kissed her, then gossipped pleasantly about the other guests and the people in the neighborhood.
And what is more to the purpose, it spared him the pain and mortification of knowing that he was gossipped about.
Warwick never rummaged work-baskets, gossipped, or paid compliments for want of something to do.
On the way they gossipped, and the maid expressed a belief that Mr. Lane was a fine young gentleman, but full of his goings-on.
And they two and Gwen sat down upon the bank, and laughed and gossipped together.
This ceremony performed, Mr. Hardie gossipped with him; and, after a detour or two, glided to his real anxiety.
They gossipped and giggled like girls, put their arms around each other's necks.
In the forepart of the oven, on either hand, stood a variety of pots and pipkins, and gossipped together in their several tones.
Old English godsibb "sponsor, godparent," from God + sibb "relative" (see sibling). Extended in Middle English to "any familiar acquaintance" (mid-14c.), especially to woman friends invited to attend a birth, later to "anyone engaging in familiar or idle talk" (1560s). Sense extended 1811 to "trifling talk, groundless rumor." Similar formations in Old Norse guðsifja, Old Saxon guþziff.
"to talk idly about the affairs of others," 1620s, from gossip (n.). Related: Gossiped; gossiping.