NOUN: 1. A person habitually engaged in idle talk about others:
blab, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger,
scandalmonger, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattler,
tattletale, telltale, whisperer. Slang : yenta. See WORDS. 2. Idle,
often sensational and groundless talk about others: gossipry,
hearsay, report, rumor, talebearing, tattle, tittle-tattle, word.
Slang : scuttlebutt. VERB: To engage in or spread gossip: blab,
noise, rumor, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, whisper. Idioms: tell
tales, tell tales out of school.