Backbite vs Gossip - What's the difference?
backbite | gossip |
To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
(informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
To speak badly of an absent individual.
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.