SCUTTLEBUTT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

Example:

the divorce caused much gossip

Synonyms:

comment; gossip; scuttlebutt

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)