gossiply
English
Etymology 1
From gossip + -ly.
Adjective
gossiply (comparative more gossiply, superlative most gossiply)
- Characteristic of or befitting a gossip; gossiplike
- 1914, Hypkin Brown, Farmer Bibbins, page 165:
- He was finding it a diverting task to make plain the "gossiply" report and to prevent the one — who, in his desperate effort to grasp the meaning of it all, was searching him — […]
- 1922, Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts - Issues 1-2, page 93:
- It seemed from a distance they were destined to be: branded forever, two names locked in a heart, the love bite of a gossiply, homely, garrulous fly.
- 2002, Rajni Sehgal, Dictionary Of English Literat., page 215:
- His gossiply (rather feline) letters, which have many often highly entertaining anecdotes about his friends and contemporaries, provide an invaluable guide to the manners and interests of the 18th century.
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Synonyms
- gossipy
Etymology 2
From gossip + -ly.
Adverb
gossiply (comparative more gossiply, superlative most gossiply)
- In a manner befitting a gossip, or in a gossipy manner
Anagrams
- gypsisol