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gossiphood

noun

Etymology

From gossip + -hood.

  1. inherited from godsibb — “godparent, sponsor”
  2. inherited from godsybbe
  3. formed as gossiphood — “gossip + -hood”

Definitions

  1. Relationship by baptismal rites

    Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.

    • XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood.
    • The gossiphood is the only guarantee of any connexion with the later märchen.
    • […] whereat the Bergomask fell into a mad fit of jealousy and forbade Zanina to call the soldier gossip or to speak with him ; insomuch that he would have had her break her sacred bond of gossiphood.

  2. Gossip

    Gossip; idle talk.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA