Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Gossip, chatter. · A chat. · A gossip, tell-tale. · The cry of a goose.
To gossip, prate, chatter. · To talk rapidly; gabble. · To cackle, as geese.
From Middle English *cank (compare Middle English cang (“foolish"; also "fool”, adj and noun) > obsolete English cank (“dumb, stupid”)), from Old English canc, ġecanc (“scorn, jeering”), from Proto-West Germanic *kank, from Proto-Germanic *kanką (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *genǵ- (“to mock, insult”).
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