GOSSIPRY • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Gossipry

... we don't hear you! 'Rap' to us with the end of your pen, like the benign spirit you are, and let me (who am credulous) believe that you care for us and think kindly of us in the midst of your brilliant London gossipry, and that you don't disdain the talk of us, dark ultramontanists as we are. You are good to us in so many ways, that it's a reason for being good in another way besides. At least, to reason so is one of ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning