gossip

Noun

• a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

• a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
  • the divorce caused much gossip
    

• light informal conversation for social occasions

Verb

• talk socially without exchanging too much information
  • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
    

• wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
  • She won't dish the dirt
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  gossiper , gossipmonger , rumormonger , rumourmonger , newsmonger , comment , scuttlebutt , dish the dirt