Scuttlebutt

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A cask on a ship used to hold the day's supply of drinking water.
  • noun. A drinking fountain on a ship.
  • noun. Gossip; rumor.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Nautical, a cask or butt having a scuttle or hole cut in it for the introduction of a cup or dipper, and used to hold drinking-water. Also called scuttle-cask.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See scuttle butt.
  • noun. A drinking fountain on board a ship or at a naval station.
  • noun. The latest gossip; rumors.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
  • noun. Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
    • Word Usage
    "The scuttlebutt is that the RNC might step in a help pay off those debts."
    cross-reference
    furphy  water cooler  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    account  report  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    dirt  earful  grapevine  hearsay  malicious gossip  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    agitprop  biddies  bogeymen  chock  deckhand  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bruit  buzz  canard  chatter  common talk  
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