gossiply
advEtymology From gossip + -ly.
1
In a manner befitting a gossip, or in a gossipy manner
gossiply
adjEtymology From gossip + -ly.
1
Characteristic of or befitting a gossip; gossiplike
- He was finding it a diverting task to make plain the "gossiply" report and to prevent the one — who, in his desperate effort to grasp the meaning of it all, was searching him — […]1914, Hypkin Brown, Farmer Bibbins, page 165:
- It seemed from a distance they were destined to be: branded forever, two names locked in a heart, the love bite of a gossiply, homely, garrulous fly.1922, Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts - Issues 1-2, page 93:
1 more example
- His gossiply (rather feline) letters, which have many often highly entertaining anecdotes about his friends and contemporaries, provide an invaluable guide to the manners and interests of the 18th century.2002, Rajni Sehgal, Dictionary Of English Literat., page 215:
- Synonyms
- gossipy