Synonyms of the word

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

causerie

• n. An informal conversation, or casual short written article, especially on a serious topic.

chaffer

• v. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
• v. To talk much and idly; to chatter.
• n. bargaining; merchandise.
• n. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

chat

• v. To be engaged in informal conversation.
• v. To talk more than a few words.
• v. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
• v. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face…
• n. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
• n. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
• n. (totum pro parte, always with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a…
• n. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face…
• n. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae…
• n. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• n. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• n. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
• n. Alternative form of chaat.

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

chin-wag

• n. Alternative spelling of chinwag.

chitchat

• n. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.
• v. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.

claver

• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
• v. to gossip or chit-chat.
• n. Alternative form of clover.

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

communicator

• n. Someone who, or something that communicates.
• n. Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays…

confab

• v. To speak casually with; to chat.
• n. A casual talk or chat.

confabulate

• v. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
• v. (intransitive) To confer.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

confabulation

• n. A casual conversation; a chat.
• n. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

converse

• v. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
• v. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with.
• v. (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
• n. (now literary) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
• adj. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
• n. The opposite or reverse.
• n. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B…
• n. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse…

discourse

• n. (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
• n. (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
• n. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
• n. (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
• n. (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can…
• n. (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
• v. (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
• v. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

gab

• n. Idle chatter.
• n. The mouth or gob.
• n. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
• v. (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.

gabfest

• n. (slang) an occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length.

gossiper

• n. A person who gossips.

gossipmonger

• n. A person who spreads gossip.

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

natter

• v. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
• v. (Scotland) To nag.
• n. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

newsmonger

• n. gossiper.
• n. journalist.

report

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
• v. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information…
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
• v. (transitive) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
• v. (intransitive) To be accountable.
• v. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter…
• v. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
• v. (obsolete) To refer.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
• n. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with…
• n. The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
• n. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

rumormonger

• n. A person who spreads rumors and gossip.
• v. To spread rumors and gossip.

rumourmonger

• n. Alternative spelling of rumormonger.
• v. Alternative spelling of rumormonger.

schmoose

• v. Alternative spelling of schmooze.

schmooze

• v. To talk casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
• n. A casual conversation, especially one held in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.

scuttlebutt

• n. (nautical, countable) A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

tittle-tattle

• n. petty, idle gossip.
• n. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
• v. to engage in such gossip.
• v. to spread gossip.

visit

• v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
• v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
• v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
• n. A single act of visiting.
• n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.