gossiping
present participle ofgossip
| 单词 | gossiping |
| 释义 | gossiping present participle ofgossip gossip verb[I] uk/ˈɡɒs.ɪp/us/ˈɡɑː.səp/B2 totalkabout other people'sprivatelives: Stop gossiping and doyourwork. People havestartedto gossipaboutus. Compare natterverbUKinformal
Revealing secrets & becoming known
Examplesofgossipinggossiping In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In the old-age home, residents engaged in a language game based on labelling, name-calling,gossipingand the like. From theCambridge English Corpus The volume of a man's voice while telling a story is the same as that used by women who are 'gossiping'. From theCambridge English Corpus They are mixtures of marketed goods, public goods, goods produced within the household, and time and resources spent on education, politics, networking, evengossiping. From theCambridge English Corpus Among women from one ground at an indoor stomp dance in 1997, approximately two-thirds of the time was spent 'gossiping'. From theCambridge English Corpus All were widowed and would spend days together cooking outside for their grandchildren,gossipingand joking with one another. From theCambridge English Corpus In fact, "gossipingabout history" is normally a generic tautology. From theCambridge English Corpus People lived together in small groups and spent a lot of timegossipingwith and about each other. From theCambridge English Corpus Because of their unusual or deprived childhood, theirgossipingor criminal behaviour needs to be excused. From theCambridge English Corpus But rather thangossipingabout the appearance of men, men also gossip about sports, cars, or technology, and so on. From theCambridge English Corpus Jokes, then, are humorous observations about the kinds of topics that get discussed thoroughly by women when 'gossiping'. From theCambridge English Corpus From the riveting to the mundane, much of adult conversation concerns talk about the absent : for example, scheming in world politics, planning trips abroad, orgossipingwith friends. From theCambridge English Corpus First, they can be gossiped about because of their implied intimacy, and second, they can be accused ofgossipingabout others because of their closeted social interaction. From theCambridge English Corpus Women accept men's comments via jokes as additions to the debate, which provides yet another source of information and voice in the discussion (whether 'visiting' or 'gossiping'). From theCambridge English Corpus But this is what this place is all about—gossipingwith those who pass. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I saw the villages active with community life, houses being built, housewives shopping,gossipingon the street corner, children playing in the school grounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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