| 词汇 | gossip |
| 词源 | gossip. A gossip, the word a corruption of god-sib, “related to God,” was originally a sponsor of a child at a baptism; Shake- speare used the term in this sense in Two Gentlemen of Verona. There was so much chatter at christenings, as at funerals, that the word came to mean “a tattler or newsmonger.” |
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