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gossipee

gossipee noun: one who is gossiped about.

Noun

gossipee (plural gossipees)

  1. One who is gossiped about.
    • The gossiper, Emma wishes to control her receiver's of gossip (Harriet) opinion about Emma's marriage through setting Miss Bates, the gossipee, as a bad example to be followed in pursuing a dream of marriage.2017, Fareed Hameed Al-Hindawi, Musaab Al-Khazaali, Linguistic Analysis of Literary Data, page 180

Forms of gossipee

pluralgossipees

Origin of gossipee

From gossip + -ee.

Questions about gossipee

What does gossipee mean?
Gossipee means one who is gossiped about.
What part of speech is gossipee?
Gossipee is a noun.
What is the plural of gossipee?
The plural of gossipee is gossipees.

Words near gossipee in the dictionary

  1. gossip-mirror
  2. gossip-mirrors
  3. gossip-prone
  4. gossipdom
  5. gossiped
  6. gossipee
  7. gossipees
  8. gossiper
  9. gossipers
  10. gossipeuse
  11. gossipeuses

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