单词 | gossipred |
释义 | gossipredn.An etymologizing perversion appears in Huloet 1552: ‘Goshipbred, or gatheringe of goshyps at the wyne, syssitia.’ 1. a. The relationship of gossips (see gossip n. 1, 2); spiritual affinity. Now historical (with reference to Irish customs). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > spiritual relation of participants gossipredc1315 affinity1357 gossiphood1506 cognationa1575 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > relation of godparents or child gossipredc1315 affinity1357 gossipry?1548 gossipship1572 cognationa1575 c1315 Shoreham 68 Ase the gossybrede draȝth Ryȝt to ous after crystnynge, So gossibrede draȝeth eke Ryȝt after confermynge. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 357 In gosib~rede and holy kynrede. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 36 Be wel ware of feyned cosynage, And gossiprede. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxiiv He..assertayned hym of ye gossyprede yt was atwene hym & Blanche his Wyfe. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. v. f. xxxiiiv I haue none affinitye..eyther by gossepred or by maryage. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 180 The like may be said of Goβipred or Compaternitie, which though by the Canon Law, it be a spirituall affinity [etc.]. 1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. 8 (margin) Alliance by marriage, nurture of Infants, and gossipred with the Irish are high treason. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. x. 458 The custom of fostering, and gossipred, among the Irish. 1861 G. Smith Irish Hist. 37 The connexion of sponsorship or gossiprede was made a sort of second fosterage. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness cousinagea1398 alliancea1475 affinityc1485 propinquitya1500 societya1513 kindred1528 cognationa1555 affinitive1579 sympathya1586 vicinity1594 affiance1597 contingence1612 contingency1612 congeniality1620 umbilicality1646 consanguinity1651 congeneracy1664 gossipred1674 congenerousness1677 closeness1692 intimacy1720 proximity1762 liaison1809 cousinship1848 affiliation1870 kinship1876 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 91 We find some bodies amongst us hold up a Gossipred, that seem to have little or nothing of kinred. 2. By some modern writers used for: The habitual action of a gossip or tattler; small-talk; = gossip n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearing murmurationc1485 tattling1547 talebearing1571 by-babbling1614 twittinga1643 gossiping1712 gossipry1818 gossipred1828 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping taling1382 susurrationa1425 trattlinga1425 tittlinga1450 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 tittle-tattlinga1586 news-making1707 gossiping1712 gossipry1818 gossipred1828 anecdoting1845 calleting1905 hen-cackle1907 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 228 Our poor fellow-citizen..having been active in spreading these reports, as indeed his element lay in such gossipred. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 369 The women..collecting in a group upon their little stools indulge in the pleasures of gossipred and the pipe. 1892 Manning Pastime Papers 53 It is a rigorous destiny that Gossipred should have come to signify one of the worst of social vices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1315 |
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