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US
/ˈskətəɫˌbət/
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[ UK /skˈʌtəlbˌʌt/ ]
[ UK /skˈʌtəlbˌʌt/ ]
NOUN
-
a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
the divorce caused much gossip
How To Use scuttlebutt In A Sentence
- The scuttlebutt I hear is that a lot of the leading Illinois Democrats (i.e. the crooked Blue Dog ones who are all going to end up indicted anyway as long as Pat Fitzgerald doesn't run out of time) want Hillary and the only reason Obama has as strong a base as he does in his home state is because of Penny Pritzker's bullheadedness in getting him networked and funded. Reid Allowed Vote On Mukasey In Exchange For Military Funding Bill
- Yet the 61-year-old Diller insists there was never anything to the scuttlebutt.
- Like most X-Box scuttlebutt, the various elements of the leaked spec. are tantalisingly plausible - bloody obvious, if you think about it, possibly too obvious - but too vague to draw any real conclusions.
- Such an undertaking would not be too much of a surprise: billionaire Madeleine Schickedanz' steady accruement of the company's stock prompted scuttlebutt that she was preparing to delist Germany's biggest department store chain and divide it up--although Chief Executive ThomasMiddelhoffThomas Middelhoff told the company's annual general meeting last May that such a scenario was not in the cards. Schickedanz Ready To Delist KarstadtQuelle?
- Certain scuttlebutt avows that the girls actually do not participate in the makings of many of these records.
- Walker took off to see if he could find out the latest scuttlebutt, leaving Emmert alone.
- Walk more, eat less and include dairy products to help burn fat is the scuttlebutt of late.
- Okay, so, the scuttlebutt is writers should stay in touch with their readers. April 2007
- So the latest scuttlebutt is that Google and Dell are getting together and bashing out the first Android phone. Google, Dell and the gPhone : #comments
- As far as why the junta-connected were so interested in adopting children, the scuttlebutt is that the military culture of 1970s Argentina involved lots of visits to prostitutes. Boing Boing