chisme

From Latin cīmex (“bedbug”).

chisme m (plural chismes)

1. gossip
2. a worthless object, thingy

   Synonym: cachivalho

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chisme

1. inflection of chismar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

“chisme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Latin cīmex (“bedbug”).

• Hyphenation: chis‧me

chisme m (plural chismes)

1. (Portugal, colloquial) gossip (idle talk)

   Synonyms: bisbilhotice, mexerico, fuxico, (Brazil) fofoca

2. (Trás-os-Montes) bedbug

   Synonym: percevejo

• “chisme” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chisme” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chisme” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “chisme” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From cisma, or perhaps from Latin cīmicem. Compare Old Spanish zisme, Portuguese chisme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃisme/ [ˈt͡ʃiz.me]
• Rhymes: -isme
• Syllabification: chis‧me

chisme m (plural chismes)

1. gossip

   Synonyms: (Chile) cahuín, (Chile) copucha, cotilleo, pelambre, (El Salvador) chambre

   revista de chismes ― gossip magazine

   ¡Eso no son más que chismes! ― That's just gossip!

   • 2019, Pedro Almodóvar, Dolor y gloria (motion picture), spoken by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas):

     Alberto, los chismes envejecen, como una persona.

     Alberto, gossip ages, like people.

2. trinket, gadget
3. (colloquial) thingy (something whose name one cannot recall)

• “chisme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014