Gossip vs. Whisper

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

Example: ‘Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.’;

(uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.

Example: ‘According to the latest gossip, their relationship is on the rocks.’; ‘I have a juicy piece of gossip to share with you.’;

(uncountable) Idle conversation in general.

(uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.

Example: ‘a gossip columnist’; ‘a gossip blog’;

(obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child.

(obsolete) A familiar acquaintance.

(obsolete) Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.

(intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.

(intransitive) To talk idly.

(obsolete) To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.

(obsolete) To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

Example: ‘Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken.’;

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

Example: ‘My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal.’;

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

Example: ‘The common chat of gossips when they meet.’;

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

Example: ‘Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite.’;

To stand sponsor to.

To make merry.

To prate; to chat; to talk much.

To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

light informal conversation for social occasions

a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people;

Example: ‘the divorce caused much gossip’;

a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies;

Example: ‘She won't dish the dirt’;

talk socially without exchanging too much information;

Example: ‘the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze’;

Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling.Gossip is a topic of research in evolutionary psychology, which has found gossip to be an important means for people to monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity. Indirect reciprocity is a social interaction in which one actor helps another and is then benefited by a third party.

The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.

Example: ‘I spoke in a near whisper’;

A rumor.

Example: ‘There are whispers of rebellion all around.’;

(figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).

Example: ‘The soup had just a whisper of basil.’;

A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.

(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.

(intransitive) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.

(transitive) To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.

(intransitive) To make a low, sibilant sound.

(intransitive) To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.

To address in a whisper, or low voice.

To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.

To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n.

To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.

Example: ‘The hollow, whispering breeze.’;

To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.

Example: ‘All that hate me whisper together against me.’;

To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.

Example: ‘They might buzz and whisper it one to another.’;

To address in a whisper, or low voice.

Example: ‘And whisper one another in the ear.’; ‘Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed.’;

To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.

A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See Voice, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, 5, 153, 154.

Example: ‘The inward voice or whisper can not give a tone.’; ‘Soft whispers through the assembly went.’;

A cautious or timorous speech.

Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a suggestion or insinuation.

A low, sibilant sound.

speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

the light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind

speak softly; in a low voice