| Main Entry: | scuttlebutt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
babble, back-fence talk, blather, chatter, chitchat, dirty laundry, grapevine, hearsay, meddling, prattle, rumor, talk |
| Main Entry: | buzz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
comment, cry, grapevine, hearsay, news, report, rumble*, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, whisper |
| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about others; rumor |
Synonyms: |
account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, whispering campaign, wire |
Antonyms: |
fact |
| Main Entry: | hearsay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsubstantiated information |
Synonyms: |
clothesline, comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, leak*, mere talk, noise*, report, rumble*, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, talk of the town, word of mouth |
Antonyms: |
evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth |
| Main Entry: | report |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip, talk |
Synonyms: |
advice, blow by blow, buzz*, canard, chat, chatter, chitchat, comment, conversation, cry*, dirt*, earful, grapevine, hash, hearsay, intelligence, murmur, news, prating, rumble*, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, small talk, speech, tattle, the latest, tidings, whispering, word* |
| Main Entry: | rumor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about supposed truth |
Synonyms: |
back-fence talk, breeze*, bruit, canard, comment, cry, dispatch, earful, fabrication, falsehood, fame, fiction, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, hoax, innuendo, intelligence, invention, lie, news, notoriety, report, repute, rumble, scandal, scuttlebutt, story, suggestion, supposition, tale, tattle, tidings, whisper, wire, word |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz*, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, conversation, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, hot air, idle talk, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense*, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, report, rot*, rubbish*, rumble*, rumor, scuttlebutt, small talk, trash*, tête-è-tête, yarn |
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement |
Synonyms: |
account, adage, advice, announcement, bulletin, byword, comment, communication, communiqué, declaration, directive, discourse, dispatch, expression, gossip, hearsay, information, intelligence, intimation, introduction, message, news, notice, pronouncement, proverb, remark, report, rumble, rumor, saw, saying, scuttlebutt, speech, talk, tidings, utterance |
| Main Entry: | second-hand information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect information |
Synonyms: |
buzz, gossip, grapevine report, hearsay, rumor, scuttlebutt, secondhand information, talk, unconfirmed report, word of mouth |
| Main Entry: | talebearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, gossipry, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, whispering campaign, wire, word* |