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noun gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
adjective heard through another rather than directly
originFrom Middle English hyere-zigginge (1340), here sey (ca. 1438), from the phrase heren seien (“to hear [people] say”). Compare equally old Middle High German hœrsagen (14th c.), whence modern Hörensagen.
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