Careful Words

gossip (n.)

gossip (v.)

Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,

And make the babbling gossip of the air

Cry out.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.

If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.