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11 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
originThe noun is derived from scuttle (“to cut a hole through (something)”) + butt (“wooden cask”). Noun sense 2 (“gossip, idle chatter; rumour”) refers to the fact that sailors would gather around the scuttlebutt to drink and exchange gossip; compare furphy and water cooler. The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- subcult 11
- buttles 9
- cutlets 9
- cuttles 9
- scuttle 9
- tubules 9
- clubs 9
- cubes 9
- bluest 8
- bluets 8
- bustle 8
- butles 8