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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