Eavesdrop vs Gossip - What's the difference?
eavesdrop | gossip |
(senseid)To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house
The space around a house on which such water drips
A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building
The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard
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 eavesdrop and gossip
is that eavesdrop is (to hear a conversation one is not intended to hear)To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in while gossip is to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.As nouns the difference between eavesdrop and gossip
is that eavesdrop is the dripping of rain from the eaves of a house while gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.eavesdrop
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Verb
(eavesdropp)- I hope nobody was eavesdropping on our conversation last night, since it got so personal.