Gossip vs Twaddle - What's the difference?
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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.
To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
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As nouns the difference between gossip and twaddle
is that gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business while twaddle is empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.As verbs the difference between gossip and twaddle
is that gossip is to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information while twaddle is to talk or write nonsense; to prattle.gossip
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(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
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(wikipedia twaddle)Synonyms
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;nonsense * 1918 , , Prelude , Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 118, *: Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym. ;rubbish * 1887 , , A Study In Scarlet , Beeton's Christmas Annual, (Chapter 2 - The Science of Deduction), pages 1-95 (exact page number not known). *: "What ineffable twaddle !" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling .}}
