Gossiply

He was finding it a diverting task to make plain the "gossiply" report and to prevent the one — who, in his desperate effort to grasp the meaning of it all, was searching him — […]

It seemed from a distance they were destined to be: branded forever, two names locked in a heart, the love bite of a gossiply, homely, garrulous fly.

His gossiply (rather feline) letters, which have many often highly entertaining anecdotes about his friends and contemporaries, provide an invaluable guide to the manners and interests of the 18th century.