Scuttlebutt (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
Example:
the divorce caused much gossip
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scuttlebutt" is a kind of...):
account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scuttlebutt"):
earful (an outpouring of gossip)
hearsay; rumor; rumour (gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth)
grapevine; pipeline; word of mouth (gossip spread by spoken communication)
dirt; malicious gossip; scandal (disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people)
talk; talk of the town (idle gossip or rumor)