gossip

This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England.

[…] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;

[…] a world

Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms i.e.#English Christian names],

That blinking Cupid gossips.

[…] those baby eyes

That never saw the giant world enraged;

Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,

Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.