What is one who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. The common chat of gossips when they meet. Dryden called?
gossip — One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. The common chat of gossips when they meet. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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