One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

n.: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

Gossip aims at making instant messaging as easy as possible, while giving users of the GNOME desktop a user-friendly way of keeping in touch with their friends.

A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

This word, derived from gossipry (q.v.), originally meant the conversation of close friends.  It developed its negative connotations during the middle of the 19th century, just as romantic friendship was beginning to come under siege.

cousin, friend.

To prate; to chat; to talk much.

Talking about things instead of doing them. Also, talking about things that are offstage or in the past or future.

talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

Gossip is tantamount to the civil law of public disclosure of private facts without the permission of the subject of the facts. A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much (Proverbs 20:19).

Rumours about the personal lives of individuals.

a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

a person who jumps to conclusions

light informal conversation for social occasions

a person who syndicates his conversation

Gossip was an experimental game created for the Atari 400 by Chris Crawford. Crawford wished for games that would simulate aspects of human social interaction, thus creating games with “social challenges” that would broaden the universe of computer and video game genres. He hoped people-games would also appeal to different audiences from the then-prevalent combat-based and sports games.