0 past simple and past participle of gossip
She's been gossiping and hasn't done a stroke of work all morning.
I wouldn't tell her your secrets - you know how she likes to gossip.
It's not only the women around here who like to gossip, you know!
The old folk sit gossiping in the village square for most of the morning.
From there, such youngsters could carry this information throughout the alleys and tenements, along the thoroughfares and into the shops where people gadded and gossiped.
First, they can be gossiped about because of their implied intimacy, and second, they can be accused of gossiping about others because of their closeted social interaction.
She is guilty because someone has gossiped about her—guilty even if there is no proof—and then she is called upon to prove herself innocent.