gossip

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英语

英語維基百科有一篇條目關於：

gossip

词源

源自中古英語 godsybbe、godsib (“亲朋好友；教父，教母”)，源自古英語 godsibb (“教父，教母”)，等价于god +‎ sib。godsib 的同源對似詞。“流言蜚语”之意的产生可对比法語 commérage。

发音

(標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɡɒsɪp/
(通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɡɑsəp/
音頻 (通用美式)： (檔案)
斷字：gos‧sip

名词

gossip (可數和不可數，複數 gossips)

(可數) 爱八卦的人，爱传流言蜚语的人；八公，八婆
近義詞：busybody, gossipmonger, meddler, rumormonger；亦參見Thesaurus:gossiper

Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.
跟他说话时长个心眼，他经常传流言蜚语。
- 1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal‎^[1], volume 1, number 11, page 73:
  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.
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- 1846，Herman Melville，「Sequel Containing the Story of Toby」，收錄於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 […]
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- 1952，John Steinbeck，第48章，收錄於East of Eden‎^[3]，London：Heinemann，456頁：
  Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street. He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.
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(不可數) 流言蜚语，八卦
近義詞：dirt, hearsay, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt；亦參見Thesaurus:rumor

According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.
据最新的八卦消息，他们的感情出现了裂痕。

I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.
我有一个劲爆的八卦要跟你说。
- Template:RQ:Austen Persuasion
- Template:RQ:Chambers Younger Set
- 1980，J. M. Coetzee，第2章，收錄於Waiting for the Barbarians‎^[4]，Penguin，1982 出版，32頁：
  The smaller a town the more richly it hums with gossip. There are no private affairs here. Gossip is the air we breathe.
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- 2018, Anna Burns, chapter 1, in Milkman‎^[5], 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.
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(不可數) 闲谈
近義詞：chat, chinwag, chit-chat, natter；亦參見Thesaurus:chatter
- Template:RQ:Alcott Little Women
(不可數) 八卦新闻，八卦媒体
a gossip columnist
八卦专栏作家

a gossip blog
八卦博客
- Template:RQ:Vance Outsider
(計算機) （流言协议的）通讯，通信
(現仅歷史) 教父，教母，教父母
近義詞：sponsor, godsib

下位詞：godfather, godmother
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Verona
- 1689，John Selden，Table-Talk‎^[6]，London：Jacob Tonson et al., 1696, “Prayer”，134頁：
  Should a great Lady, that was invited to be a Gossip, in her place send her Kitchen-Maid, ’twould be ill taken;
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- Template:RQ:Richardson Pamela
- 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.
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- 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, […]
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(棄用) 熟人，朋友
近義詞：friend
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8
(棄用) （教父母名字后加的称谓）教父，教母
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives
- 1905, William John Locke, chapter 11, in The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (novel)‎^[7]:
  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.
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衍生词汇

派生語彙

→? 吳語：茄山河

动词

gossip (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gossips，現在分詞 gossiping 或 (罕用) gossipping，簡單過去時和過去分詞 gossiped 或 (罕用) gossipped)

(不及物) 议论纷纷，聊八卦，传八卦
近義詞：blab, dish the dirt, spill the tea, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school
- 1749，Henry Fielding，第4章，收錄於The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史]，第I卷，London：A[ndrew] Millar, […]，→OCLC，「book 2」，66頁：
  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.
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- 1959，Muriel Spark，第8章，收錄於Memento Mori‎^[8]，New York：Time-Life, 1964，109頁：
  Godfrey felt guilty at having gossiped to Olive about Lettie’s changes in her will.
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(不及物) 闲聊，聊天
近義詞：chat, chatter, chew the fat, chinwag, natter, prattle, shoot the breeze
- Template:RQ:Jerome Three Men
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  "Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still."
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(棄用) 给...找教父母
- c. 1604–1605 (date written)，William Shakespeare，「All’s Well, that Ends Well」，收錄於Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]（First Folio），London： […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount，1623 出版，→OCLC，「[Act I、scene i]」：
  […] a world
  Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names],
  That blinking Cupid gossips.
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- 1709, Richard Steele, “No. 95 in The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff”, in The Tatler‎^[9], London, 1712, page 282:
  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.
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(棄用) （节日庆典时）开心，愉快
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare King John
(不及物，計算機) （使用流言协议）通讯，通信

参考资料

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意大利语

词源

借自英語 gossip。

名词

gossip 陽 (無屈折)

（尤指名人，要人的）流言蜚语，八卦
近義詞：pettegolezzo

衍生词汇

gossipparo