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To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.

I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor. Shak.

nt. -- Old wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

n; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

sually qualified by old. [Colloq.] Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Hawthorne.

nto ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. -- To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]

An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [R.] Tatler.

The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.

One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.