In the age of Yiddish theater, it started referring to a busybody  or 
gossipmonger .  The word has since become Yinglish  (a Yiddish
Kaynak: YentaOily Man was, in fact, Ah Lin, the timid co-owner (along with his 
gossipmonger wife, Ah Ying) of a wanton  store next to Xiao-gu's
Kaynak: The Golden Path (TV series)Holmes goes to see Langdale Pike , a man who for years has made a living by being a 
gossipmonger for several publications.  There is not
Kaynak: The Adventure of the Three Gablesdeaths and Cassius Dio  also mentions such rumours but not even the 
gossipmonger Suetonius , who had access to official documents, repeats them.
Kaynak: LiviaRatliff is established as a 
gossipmonger, a speculative capitalist, a traveler.  Flem disrupts the normal business practices of the Varner
Kaynak: The HamletLangdale Pike is a celebrated 
gossipmonger whose columns are published in numerous magazines and newspapers (referred to as the "garbage
Kaynak: Minor Sherlock Holmes characters