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Gossip vs Mumble - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gossip and mumble

is that gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business while mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization.

As verbs the difference between gossip and mumble

is that gossip is to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information while mumble is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.

gossip

English

(wikipedia gossip)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
  • *:"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.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Synonyms

    * scuttle-butt * See also

    Verb

  • To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
  • To talk idly.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, talk about someone else's private or personal business) blab, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school

    References

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    mumble

    English

    Verb

  • (intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
    • Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Peace, you mumbling fool.
  • * Otway
    • A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
  • To chew something gently with closed lips.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety peg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
    • All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
  • A low tone of voice.
    • ''He spoke in a mumble .