gossiply

comparative more gossiply · superlative most gossiply

1. Characteristic of or befitting a gossip; gossiplike

   It seemed from a distance they were destined to be: branded forever, two names locked in a heart, the love bite of a gossiply, homely, garrulous fly.

   1922, Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts - Issues 1-2, page 93

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   He was finding it a diverting task to make plain the "gossiply" report and to prevent the one — who, in his desperate effort to grasp the meaning of it all, was searching him — […]

   1914, Hypkin Brown, Farmer Bibbins, page 165

   His gossiply (rather feline) letters, which have many often highly entertaining anecdotes about his friends and contemporaries, provide an invaluable guide to the manners and interests of the 18th century.

   2002, Rajni Sehgal, Dictionary Of English Literat., page 215

   Synonyms: gossipy

comparative more gossiply · superlative most gossiply

1. In a manner befitting a gossip, or in a gossipy manner