Hard-news people considered you one step above a gossip monger, a paparazzi.
The threat to privacy that concerned the authors came not from the Government but from gossip mongers and snooping journalists.
It's sufficiently isolated in the grounds to keep gossip mongers away when I want a little private sport.
Don't turn me into a gossip monger, Janice, all right?
Indeed, his role model was Walter Winchell, the legendary gossip monger, but with the malice shorn off.
But I'm a doctor, not a gossip monger, so you'll have to get your update elsewhere.
This is not some minor power struggle - office politics of interest only to the participants and a few academic gossip mongers.
Don Marzio is a mean-spirited, compulsive gossip monger and, worst of all, a stool pigeon.
She'd slept at Quintana's house last night and it seemed every gossip monger in town knew it!
He works for a small time firm dealing in wallpaper distribution, where his colleagues are gossip mongers.