GOSSIP Copy link • GOSSIPs. homo garrulus: loquax (that talks much): vulgator (publisher of news, etc., Ov.): famigerator (comedy, a malicious talkative fellow): rumigerulus (late; Ammian): combibo (litterally, a bottle-companion): compotor: sodalis (companion). Feminine, garrula: *vulgatrix: *famigeratrix. Idle talk, sermo: sermones (talk): *sermones falsi, or improbi, or aniles (i. e., old woman’s talk): garritus: confabulatio: foolish or idle gossip, rumusculi imperitorum hominum. To have a gossip with anybody, fabulari or confabulari cum aliquo: to have a gossip together, fabulari inter se: sermones caedere (λόγους κόπτειν): I often have a gossip with anybody, cum aliquo fabulor insusurrans ac praebens invicem aurem (Suet., Caes., 22). Godfather or godmother, Vid: GOSSIP, v. To chat, Vid :; and GOSSIP, s. To gossip about anything, evulgare: divulgare: effutire foris [SYN. in DIVULGARE]. To gossip about anybody, or anybody’s affairs, aliquem differre rumoribus (maliciously): a gossiping set or party, sessiuncula (Cic., Fin., 5, 20, 56). A gossiping town, urbs sermonum avida: I should like to gossip with you longer, cupiebam (in a letter) plura garrire.