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chisme

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃisme/ [ˈt͡ʃiz̺.mɪ]
  • Rhymes: -isme

Etymology 1

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Uncertain. Compare Spanish chisme.

Noun

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chisme m (plural chismes)

  1. gossip
  2. a worthless object, thingy
    Synonym: cachivalho
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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chisme

  1. inflection of chismar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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  • chisme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: chis‧me

Etymology 1

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Uncertain, perhaps equivalent to etymology 2. Compare Spanish chisme.

Noun

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chisme m (plural chismes) (Portugal, colloquial)

  1. gossip (idle talk)
    Synonyms: bisbilhotice, mexerico, fuxico, (Brazil) fofoca

Etymology 2

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From Latin cīmicem.

Noun

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chisme m (plural chismes) (Trás-os-Montes)

  1. bedbug
    Synonym: percevejo

Further reading

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Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Uncertain. A connection to cisma (schism; discord) has been proposed on the grounds that rumours can cause strife. Coromines considers it more likely to be a further evolution of etymology 2 below.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃisme/ [ˈt͡ʃiz.me]
  • Rhymes: -isme
  • Syllabification: chis‧me

Noun

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chisme m (plural chismes)

  1. gossip
    Synonyms: (Chile) cahuín, (Chile) copucha, cotilleo, pelambre, (El Salvador) chambre
    revista de chismesgossip magazine
    ¡Eso no son más que chismes!That's just gossip!
    • 2019, Pedro Almodóvar, Dolor y gloria (motion picture), spoken by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas):
      Alberto, los chismes envejecen, como una persona.
      Alberto, gossip ages, like people.
  2. trinket, gadget
  3. (colloquial) thingy (something whose name one cannot recall)
    Synonyms: coso, chirimbolo
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Cebuano: tsismis
  • Tagalog: tsismis

Etymology 2

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From Old Spanish çisme f, from Latin cīmicem m. Initial consonant altered presumably by association with the synonymous doublet chinche.

Noun

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chisme f (plural chismes) (obsolete)

  1. bedbug

References

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