Gossip vs Meddler - What's the difference?
gossip | meddler |
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.
One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.
* 1759 , Adam Smith,
* 1868 , Horatio Alger,
* 1934 , H. P. Lovecraft,
As nouns the difference between gossip and meddler
is that gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business while meddler is one who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.As a verb gossip
is to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.gossip
English
(wikipedia gossip)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* scuttle-butt * See alsoVerb
Synonyms
* (sense, talk about someone else's private or personal business) blab, talk out of turn, tell tales out of schoolReferences
* ----meddler
English
Noun
(en noun)The theory of moral sentiments
- The prudent man is not willing to subject himself to any responsibility which his duty does not impose upon him. He is not a bustler in business where he has no concern; is not a meddler in other people’s affairs; is not a professed counsellor or adviser, who obtrudes his advice where nobody is asking it.
Struggling Upward
- “Yes, Mr. Coleman, I have,” answered Luke steadily. “I thought it my duty to inform this man of your character. I have advised him to put his money into a savings-bank.”
- “Curse you for an impertinent meddler !” said Coleman wrathfully. “I’ll get even with you for this!”
- “You can do as you please,” said Luke calmly.
- “Stop!” The hoarse, oddly alien voice of the Swami held a tone beyond all mere earthly fright “I told you there was another form of proof which I could give if necessary, and I warned you not to provoke me to it. This red-faced old meddler is right; I’m not really an East Indian. This face is a mask, and what it covers is not human.”