0 full of gossip (= conversation or reports about other people's private lives that might be unkind or not true):
a gossipy letter
He told me a gossipy anecdote about the late Princess.
gossipy people
He dismissed the politicians as "a group of gossipy old busybodies".
She remembers her nightly gossipy phone calls with her best friend.
He was permitted to publish a lively and gossipy memoir which enraged the many ministers whom he mocked.
The two held hands and talked in whispers, like gossipy friends.
In the next section, we work toward characterizing the discursive strategies used for othering in stories involving gossipy events.
This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways.
They are thus a doubly interesting source: early in her career they supply a much-needed musical profile; later they fill in the gossipy backstage context.
In the gossipy talk episodes examined, social "transgression" might be oriented to as a serious matter and thus pejorated, or oriented to in a playful key and thus celebrated.
This is an aspect of gossipy talk that deserves but has not yet received sustained attention, and it is to this we turn in our analysis of gossip episodes below.
