Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… in the period as an abstract noun and it was still commonly used to describe a person with some relation – as in Samuel Johnson ’s definition as ‘one who answers for the child in baptism’. But the abstract noun is clearly already implicit in Johnson’s ‘One who runs about tattling like women at a lying in’. 3 But many features of two types of gossip are evident …
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