gossipry

English

Noun

gossipry (countable and uncountable, plural gossipries)

  1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
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  2. Idle talk; gossip.
    • Robert Browning
      [S]uch acts
      As I thought just, my wife called cruelty,
      Complained of in due form, — convoked no court
      Of common gossipry, but took her wrongs […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gossipry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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