mumblenews

English

Etymology

mumble +‎ news

Noun

mumblenews (plural mumblenewses)

1. (obsolete) A gossiper.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 2, lines 463–464:

     Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, / Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,

   • 2017 [1870], Douglas Robinson, transl., The Brothers Seven, Bucharest: Zeta Books, translation of Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi (in Finnish), page 330:

     Well said, you mumblenews from Kolistin. Well said!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:gossiper

References

• “mumblenews”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.