gossip

英 ['g?s?p]美['ɡɑs?p]

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復數:?gossips;第三人稱單數:?gossips;過去式:?gossiped;現在分詞:?gossiping;形容詞:?gossipy;

1. 諧音"搞事婆".?助記法:喜歡(說閑話)的人都是搞事婆.

gossip 閑聊，流言蜚語

gos, 來自god, 上帝。sip, 姐妹，詞源同sibling, sister. 即上帝的姐妹，通常指婦女們聚在一起閑聊，閑侃，引申詞義流言蜚語。

gossip: gossip: [OE] The Anglo-Saxons’ term for a ‘godparent’ was godsibb, a compound formed from god ‘god’ (just as in modern English godmother, godfather, etc) and sib ‘relative’ (a word of unknown origin from which modern English gets sibling). It denotes one’s ‘relative in God’, one’s ‘spiritual relative’. By Middle English times, however, it had come down in the world somewhat, to mean simply ‘close friend’, and by the 16th century it was being used for ‘one who indulges in idle talk’. The modern sense ‘idle talk’ developed from the verb in the 19th century.
=> god, sibling
gossip (n.): Old English godsibb "sponsor, godparent," from God + sibb "relative" (see sibling). Extended in Middle English to "a familiar acquaintance, a friend, neighbor" (c. 1300), especially to woman friends invited to attend a birth, later to "anyone engaging in familiar or idle talk" (1560s). Sense extended 1811 to "trifling talk, groundless rumor." Similar formations in Old Norse guesifja, Old Saxon gutziff.
gossip (v.): "to talk idly about the affairs of others," 1620s, from gossip (n.). Related: Gossiped; gossiping.

2. We read the gossip written about them with prurient interest.: 我們翻看他們的八卦時帶著不潔的想法。

3. The jet-setting couple made frequent appearances in the gossip columns.: 這對穿梭于各國的富豪夫婦經常出現在八卦專欄。

4. There has been much gossip about the possible reasons for his absence.: 關于他缺席的原因有很多傳言。