Discuss vs Gossip - What's the difference?
discuss | gossip |
(obsolete) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.i:
* Rambler
* Sir H. Wotton
To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
(obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
* , Merry Wives of Windsor , act 1, sc. 3:
* , Henry V , act 4, sc. 1:
To break to pieces; to shatter.
To deal with, in eating or drinking.
* Sir S. Baker
To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracydistilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
(lb) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
*(John Selden) (1584-1654)
*:Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip , in her place send her kitchen maid, 'twould be ill taken.
To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
To talk idly.
As verbs the difference between discuss and gossip
is that discuss is to drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors while gossip is to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.As a noun gossip is
someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.discuss
English
(wikipedia discuss)Verb
- For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust , / And meet respect of honour put to flight
- a pomade of virtue to discuss pimples
- Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.
- Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.
- I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.
- Nym : I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
- Pistol : Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?
- We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.
