rumormonger

See also: rumor-monger and rumor monger

English

Alternative forms

• rumor-monger, rumor monger (US)
• rumourmonger, rumour-monger, rumour monger (UK)

Etymology

Compound of rumor +‎ monger.

Noun

rumormonger (plural rumormongers)

1. (American spelling) A person who spreads rumors and gossip.

   Synonyms: blabbermouth, gossip, rumorist, rumourist, talebearer, telltale; see also Thesaurus:gossiper

   • 1947, Murray Morgan, Bridge To Russia: Those Amazing Aleutians, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 161:

     Then the Seventh moved to Fort Ord and practiced—although without full equipment—amphibious landings. The hot poop of the rumor mongers became, “Southwest Pacific for us, fellows.” But when the convoy sailed from San Francisco on April twenty-fourth, the ships turned north.

Related terms

• gossipmonger
• monger (and derived terms: -monger)
• newsmonger
• scandalmonger

 

Translations

person who spreads rumors and gossip

• Bulgarian: клюкар (bg) m (kljukar)
• German: Gerüchtemacher m, Gerüchtemacherin f, Gerüchteverbreiter m, Gerüchteverbreiterin f, Kolporteur (de) m, Kolporteurin f
• Irish: ráflálaí m
• Italian: sussurrone m, sussurrona f
• Latin: fāmigerātor m, fāmigerātrīx f
• Maori: ngutu tere
• Plautdietsch: Kjwint f

Verb

rumormonger (third-person singular simple present rumormongers, present participle rumormongering, simple past and past participle rumormongered)

1. To spread rumors and gossip.