Gossip Vocabulary in English - Blabbing with Becky

Hey guys I'm Becky! Welcome back to "Blabbing With Becky"

the best gossiping channel on YouTube

Okay so usually I'm the one giving the latest and greatest gossip on the internet

but today on BWB I'm gonna be teaching you guys

how to gossip in English

So you can be Gossip Queens just like Becky!

"To blab" means "To gossip"

to reveal someone's secrets

perhaps in a careless way but we don't care

it's a verb like: "On this channel we blab"

but "To gossip" it means the same thing

but it's a verb, noun, and adjective

and I'm gonna show you how to use it in some cool ways

For example as a noun

"I am a gossip" yes "I am a got a huge gossip!"

and you know what? I don't really care about what all of you say about me on Twitter

Yeah I read your tweets, Ashley!

But you know what? I don't care

Only Doug can judge me

Doug's my boyfriend

also when I'm telling secrets, "I'm SPREADING gossip"

remembering of course, that "gossip" is an uncountable noun

Which means not "One gossip" "Two gossips", "Three gossips". No!

You should say "Some gossip"

"I heard some gossip"

"Oh my god I heard some gossip from Becky today,

Becky is the best!"

if you really want to count the gossip

then you can say "a piece of gossip"

"I heard a piece of gossip"

and yes you can use it also as an adjective "Gossipy"

Ew I forgot, did you hear the gossip about Kim?

Yeah Kim who said that I was too gossipy

yeah well Kim smells her own farts

I've seen it, it's disgusting

and yes like a verb: Gossiping

"To gossip", "I gossiped"

okay so here are some really cool expressions about gossip that you can use

Okay when you want to ask for gossip say these things:

"Oh my god give me the gossip"

Okay this is the kind of basic version

and it's fine but there are better ones you can use like

"Oh my god dish the dirt!"

Okay but that expression is a bit more British, I know, ew!

but an American thing to say would be

"Oh my god spill!"

"Spill" from the expression "Spill the beans"

but we just say "spill" because it's cuter

this is a fun expression you can use with your gossipy friends

but a better one would be

"Oh my god you have gossip okay,

I'm sitting down okay, lay it on me, I'm ready"

"Lay it on me!"

I like this one, this one's fun

Okay before we continue, "a rumour"

A rumour is a story which is circulating

there's no proof that it's true, and in fact

it kind of seems like it's not true

although I will say I heard a rumour about Ashley

yeah she had surgery on her feet

to make like her toes bigger

because she wants to be a foot model on the internet

like I can't even with Ashley, she's so basic

Cool okay if you want to give gossip

then you can start using these expressions here

"Oh my god I've got some gossip for you!"

but that sounds basic and you don't want to be basic

so use these expressions they're a little better

a little cooler

our next expression is "A little bird told me"

Yeah, it's cute!

This expression is like

you don't want to say exactly who told you the gossip

so that person remains anonymous, like-

Oh my god, Jacqueline stop calling me!

Stop! I'm trying to make a video!

"Oh my god stop!"

So just remember-

Jacqueline what?

stop bothering me

Go kiss your cousin again

Yeah okay so a little bird told me that Jacqueline practises kissing with her cousin

She is so weird

Our next expression is "I heard it through the grapevine"

we usually use this expression when the gossip came from a certain group of people

For example

Oh my god okay a guy work with at Abercrombie, Jay...

Yeah I know I work at Abercrombie, I'm pretty I know

but I heard through the Abercrombie grapevine

that Jay is part of a cult

they paint faces on eggs

and they pray to the eggs for, like, good weather

or whatever

it's like so sad

our next expression is "Word on the street"

But this is a little bit old-fashioned, like, no one really says it anymore

So just say, like, "Word is..."

Okay so word is Jenny likes Rob

but she won't date Rob because of his forehead

she said "His forehead is SO big, it's more like a five-head"

Okay but don't laugh that's mean

Those are her words not mine

Thanks for watching I hope you guys learned some really cool expressions

So you can be a gossip queen just like me, Becky!

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