English

Alternative forms

• gossip-mill

Noun

gossip mill ‎(plural gossip mills)

1. Rumor mill.
   • 2012, gossip mill, Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press.

     the Hollywood gossip mill has gone into overdrive this week with reports that one of its hottest couples are on the verge of splitting up

   • 2014, Robert Aldrich, Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka:

     The gossip-mill spread other whispers as well. Macdonald was said to employonly handsome equerries. He was rumouredto have engaged in homosexual activities when an officer in South Africa; he even had an affair with a Boer prisoner.