I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gossip column (= one about the private lives of famous people )
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She was upset by an item in the Washington Times gossip column.
gossip column
hot gossip
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Do you want to hear about all the latest hot gossip ?
idle chatter/talk/gossip etc
malicious gossip/rumour
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Who is responsible for these malicious rumours?
piece of advice/information/gossip etc
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Let me give you a piece of advice.
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We’re witnessing a piece of history in the making.
salacious gossip
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the media’s love of salacious gossip
spread lies/gossip
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How dare you spread such vicious lies!
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Has someone been spreading malicious gossip?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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Once he got started, like all the best gossips , there was no stopping him.
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Along the way, a couple of good gossip nuggets emerge.
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But if it's good gossip you're after, you've come to the right place.
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What was good was the gossip and the lies.
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He liked a good gossip and knew something about everybody in the area.
hot
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Certainly not a considerable number of ladies, according to hot gossip and well informed rumour.
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Got any hot new gossip for us, Chris?
idle
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She had no time for idle gossip as she had to do all the work herself.
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She's a great one for idle gossip though.
local
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While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports.
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The reasoning was elaborate, the product of nonstop local gossip since a series of strange events on June 5.
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Trudi, a dwarf and an outsider, becomes the local gossip and observer of everything that occurs in her village.
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For the rest of the time, we talked only of natural history and local gossip , and got on very well.
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Letters from home came weekly, crammed with family news and local gossip .
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Except for obvious examples such as the local gossip .
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But that kind of local gossip will ease the tension out of you.
malicious
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Jotan's daughter, the sister of Jehan, was the source of as much malicious gossip as he was himself.
■ NOUN
column
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When such an article rises above the level of a gossip column , the artist's profile can be a valuable format.
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Without Deborah they did not add to any more than another name for the bars and gossip columns of New York.
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He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess.
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When they stirred controversies, they were generally reported by the feature pages and gossip columns of newspapers.
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Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously.
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Her colourful opinions soon gave her a wider platform and she became a familiar face in the gossip columns .
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Back in London, her name began appearing in the gossip columns .
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Even colleagues assumed the gossip column staff spent most of their waking hours at parties.
columnist
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Business gossip columnists speculate endlessly on who will emerge as the old man's successor.
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She threw parties and invited gossip columnists .
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True, no gossip columnists allowed, no photographers permitted.
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A self-confessed gossip columnist , she writes under her former married name of Lady Colin Campbell - to me her first vulgarity.
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Nearby gossip columnist Louella Parsons listened attentively.
office
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How could I ever listen to office gossip even in bed and find it so intelligent?
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Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.
village
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La Bavarde - a village gossip shares the day's news. 4.
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Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse, Mrs Bolton ... who just happens to be the village gossip .
■ VERB
exchange
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They could exchange gossip about the parish; anything to distract his mind.
hear
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Mina said he was always asking her if she'd heard any interesting gossip at her musical soirées.
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Erik may not be there, but your agents could have heard rumours or gossip .
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He was also well skilled in diplomacy, hearing a great deal of gossip and complaint but discreet enough to keep it to himself.
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Bobbie, with her connections, would be well placed to hear gossip .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
juicy gossip/details/stories etc
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Closed doors with Wilkinson usually meant that he had some especially juicy gossip or that he was fishing for information.
titbit of information/gossip/news etc
water cooler gossip
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't tell him anything private - he's a terrible gossip .
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I don't believe Liz had an affair with him. That's just malicious gossip .
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I got back from my vacation eager to hear all the latest gossip .
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I heard an interesting piece of gossip about Beth Ann.
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Mrs Busby was always ready to exchange local gossip with the customers who came into her shop.
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Polly follows all the gossip about the royal family.
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Recently her name has showed up a lot in gossip columns.
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The conversation began to drift towards gossip about their colleagues.
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The public never seems to tire of Hollywood gossip .
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The town gossips had been spreading rumours about Bruce for months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lie is as good as the truth to a gossip .
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But the Mirror has read a transcript of the 2year-old recording and found much of it to be inconsequential gossip .
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Eliza Grierson was known as a gossip of Olympian standards.
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He loved to use gossip , half-truths, and lies to separate friends and to destroy relationships.
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Other gossip has Sun's low-end Tsunami box - due imminently - cast as Sunrgy.
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The government's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation, rumour and gossip .
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Those parliamentary gossips still in London enduring the boredom of the silly season waited in happy expectation for the scandal to break.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cocteau's jazz club was the spot where artists gossiped and drank.
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I wasn't doing anything important - just gossiping with a neighbour.
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It's best not to tell Frank anything. You know how he gossips.
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This is where the locals gather to gossip and talk politics.
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Those two old ladies sit there every day, gossiping about everyone in town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she might walk slowly, gossiping on the way, or even stop off at some other house to drink tea.
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From what she had told me, Gail hung around with her girlfriends, gossiping and looking at boys.
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He didn't want to sit gossiping in the kitchen with that old slob of a cousin.
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If people gossiped about her Fleather would never hear it.
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If you've been gossiping about some one, go to those you gossiped to and try to restore the person's reputation.
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Sergeants Camb and Martin were gossiping in the foyer when he emerged from the lift.
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Women did their shopping, gossiped, then went home to prepare the Sunday meals for their families.