chisme

Uncertain. Compare Spanish chisme.

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).

• Hyphenation: chis‧me

Uncertain, perhaps equivalent to etymology 2. Compare Spanish chisme.

chisme m (plural chismes) (Portugal, colloquial)

1. gossip (idle talk)

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

From Latin cīmicem.

chisme m (plural chismes) (Trás-os-Montes)

1. bedbug

   Synonym: percevejo

• “chisme” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chisme” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chisme” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “chisme” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “chisme” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Uncertain. A connection to cisma (“schism; discord”) has been proposed on the grounds that rumours can cause strife. Coromines considers it more likely to be a further evolution of etymology 2 below.

• 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)

From Old Spanish çisme f, from Latin cīmicem m. Initial consonant altered presumably by association with the synonymous doublet chinche.

chisme f (plural chismes) (obsolete)

1. bedbug
   • 1507, Antonio de Nebrija, Vocabularius:

     Cimex,icis por la chisme o chinche

     [The Latin word] cīmex, -icis means 'bedbug'

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “chisme”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 376

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