gossipy

/ɡˈɑsəpi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

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Meaning

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adj

"‘Tell me who you saw and what they said,’ she says, in one of her gossipy moods."
"In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life."

Etymology tree English gossip Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gossipy From gossip + -y.

gossipier (comparative) gossipiest (superlative)

gossipily gossipiness ungossipy

chatty newsy

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How do you pronounce gossipy?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈɑsəpi/.

What does gossipy mean?

Prone to gossip.

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