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gossip-mill

gossip-mill is the alternative form of gossip mill.

Meaning of gossip mill

Noun

gossip mill (plural gossip mills)

  1. A rumor mill.
    • The gossip-mill spread other whispers as well. Macdonald was said to employonly handsome equerries. He was rumouredto have engaged in homosexual activities when an officer in South Africa; he even had an affair with a Boer prisoner.2014, Robert Aldrich, Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka

Forms of gossip-mill

pluralgossip-mills

Questions about gossip-mill

What is gossip-mill the alternative form of?
Gossip-mill is the alternative form of gossip mill.

Words near gossip-mill in the dictionary

  1. gossip mill
  2. gossip mills
  3. gossip mirror
  4. gossip mirrors
  5. gossip'd
  6. gossip-mill
  7. gossip-mills
  8. gossip-mirror
  9. gossip-mirrors
  10. gossip-prone
  11. gossipdom

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