Their husbands taunted them and their neighbours gossiped about them. Bacque alleges, someone surely would have gossiped, ratted, leaked, or even just hinted. Their neighbours gossiped about the same. Betty managed the village shop and kept hens and gossiped. The affair is finally actually public instead of just semi-publicly gossiped about. Elena's mother was furious and society gossiped about Elena's difficulty in finding a husband. Information is generated by a source and gossiped to its neighbours. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing . Some people gossiped about the variation in their skin tone.