Gossip

Noun

 * 1) Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
 * 2) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
 * 3) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.

Synonyms

 * scuttle-butt (2)
 * See also Thesaurus:chatter

Verb

 * 1) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
 * 2) To talk idly.

Adjectives for Gossip
habitual; savory; baseless; interested; slanderous; mighty; idle; laggard; good-natured; dashing; careless; ubiquitous; censorious; drowsy; cheerful;  impertinent; agreeable;   withering;   contemporaneous; neighborhood; useful; whispered; undercover; vulgar; insignificant; malicious; scandalous; social; ugly.

Verbs for Gossip
cackle—; center—on; circulate—; deal out—; exchange—; feed on—; indulge in— interchange—; interest in—; ladle out— savor—; sputter—; whisper—; —buzzes —floats about; —libels; —maligns; —slanders.

Adverbs for Gossip
gregariously; inanely; incautiously; inimically; indiscreetly; loquaciously; baselessly; habitually; slanderously; censoriously; impertinently; witheringly; vulgarly; maliciously; jealously; enviously; treacherously.

Thesaurus
account, ace, amigo, associate, babble, babblement, back-fence gossip, banter, bavardage, be closeted with, bedfellow, bedmate, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbermouth, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, blethers, bosom buddy, bruit, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, busybody, butty, buzz, cackle, camarade, caquet, caqueterie, chamberfellow, chat, chatter, chatterbox, chitchat, chitter-chatter, chronicle, chum, clack, classmate, clatter, colleague, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, conversation, copartner, coze, crony, cry, dither, dope, eavesdropper, fellow, fellow student, flibbertigibbet, gab, gabble, gam, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, girl friend, go on, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossiping, gossipmonger, gossipmongering, gossipry, grapevine, groundless rumor, guff, gup, gush, haver, hearsay, hint, hot air, idle talk, imply, information, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, insinuate, intimate, jabber, jaw, make conversation, mate, mere talk, messmate, natter, newsmonger, newsmongering, newspaperman, nonsense talk, nosy Parker, old crony, on dit, on-dit, pal, palaver, pard, pardner, partner, patter, piece of gossip, playfellow, playmate, poop, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, ramble on, rattle, rattle on, reel off, reporter, retail gossip, roommate, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumble, rumor, rumormonger, run on, scandal, scandalmonger, schoolfellow, schoolmate, scopophiliac, scuttlebutt, shipmate, side partner, sidekick, sieve, sightseer, small talk, snoop, snooper, spout, spout off, story, suggest, tabby, tale, talebearer, talebearing, taleteller, taletelling, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tattle, tattler, tattletale, teammate, tell idle tales, telltale, tete-a-tete, tittle-tattle, tittle-tattler, twaddle, twattle, visit, voyeur, waffle, whisper, word, workfellow, yak, yakkety-yak, yenta, yokefellow, yokemate