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Most researchers agree that the practice involves talk about people who are not present and that this talk is relaxed, informal, and entertaining
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Rysman suggested (perhaps facetiously) that the word acquired negative connotations over time because one of the side effects of women coming together in solidarity was an increase in hassles for men!
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A notable exception to the Bible’s pervasive use of the male pronoun and references to men in general in its dictums can be found in an unkind description of widows: Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies. Saying what they should not.
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legal and religious sanctions that could be brought to bear upon gossipers who crossed a line and gossiped about the wrong people at the wrong time. Most nations still have laws against slander on the books, and until relatively recently dueling to the death was considered an honorable way of dealing with those who had transgressed against one’s... See more
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One need look no further than the Bible for examples of societal efforts to stifle destructive gossip: A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends (Proverbs 16:28) The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man’s inmost parts. (Proverbs 18:7–8) For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea... See more
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The first known literary use of the word in this negative context occurred in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Oxford English Dictionary defines the sixteenth-century use of the word as describing a woman “of light and trifling character” who “delights in “idle talk” and was a “newsmonger” or a “tattler”
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