whisper

• bare
• blab
• blaze
• broadcast
• canard
• circulate
• defamation
• dirt
• dirty laundry
• dirty linen
• disclose
• dish
• divulge
• expose
• fable
• fabrication
• fairy tale
• falsehood
• falsity
• fib
• gossip
• hearsay
• hint
• imply
• insinuate
• intimate
• libel
• lie
• mendacity
• prevarication
• proclaim
• promulgate
• propagate
• publicize
• report
• reveal
• rumor
• scuttlebutt
• slander
• spill
• spread
• story
• suggest
• tale
• talebearing
• talk
• tattle
• tell
• untruth
• whopper

• noun
  1. The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
  2. (usually in the plural) A rumor.
  3. A faint trace or hint (of something).
  4. A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.
  5. A private message to an individual in a chat room.
• verb
  1. To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
  2. To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
  3. To make a low, sibilant sound.
  4. To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
  5. To address in a whisper, or low voice.
  6. To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.

• She leaned in to whisper a secret in his ear.
• The wind seemed to whisper through the trees.
• He tried to whisper so no one else could hear.
• I could hear her whisper from across the room.
• The teacher had to whisper to avoid disturbing the class.

babbling

earful

gabbling

haet

jabbering

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