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Noun: hearsay  'heer,sey
  1. Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
    "The hearsay about the company's merger spread quickly through the town";
    - rumor [US], rumour [Brit, Cdn], furphy [Austral, informal]
Adjective: hearsay  'heer,sey
  1. Heard through another rather than directly
    "hearsay information"

Derived forms: hearsays

See also: indirect

Type of: comment, goss [Brit, informal], gossip, scuttlebutt [N. Amer, informal]

Encyclopedia: Hearsay