(n.) A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
Example Sentences:
(1) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
(2) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
(3) We value diversity, self-expression and experimentation above all else.” “The liberation of LGBTQ+ people is wired into the original components of electronic music culture and personally embodied in the deep, lifelong friendship between our godmother (and trans icon), Wendy Carlos and our godfather, Bob Moog,” Black Madonna said.
(4) Heywood and Gu were once so close that she was godmother to one of his children.
(5) It was like DIY SOS; or as Sally says, a scene from a Disney movie with me being her fairy godmother.
(6) Undoubtedly, her relationship to Tupac– she was his step-aunt and godmother – has played a role.
(7) ■ The Watergate tapes popularised the phrase "expletive deleted" and Richard Nixon is depicted using the F-word eight times in one scene alone of Oliver Stone's Nixon , and often the CS-word (which is most effectively overdubbed, for family viewing, with "fairy godmother").
(8) She is still reliant on a fairy godmother ( Helena Bonham Carter ) to help wrest her from this servile purgatory, and her life ambitions still seem to include marrying a prince and wearing a very nice dress.
(9) I've just become a godmother and it's the first time I'd actually been into a mother and baby unit and seen a newborn, and it's pretty emotional, isn't it?
(10) His political hero, whom he met as a small boy, was David Lloyd George, the last Liberal prime minister, whose daughter, Megan, was his godmother.
(11) Other groups currently have to do cleanup on the bad design of their platforms, and the marketplace will walk if those solutions are not in place.” “Sexual harassment in the workplace was the issue that radicalised my godmother, and this is connected,” says Wilson.
(12) Once your children are up and skiing, there are themed areas on the mountain that add a touch of magic and story telling, such as the Piste of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Courchevel Moriond, and the Indians Piste, where children go in search of the Grey Wolf and the Chief of the Indian tribe.
(13) Haryssa's godmother had doted on her, according to a neighbour, Bellefleur Jean Heber.
(14) Prince Charles, Sir James Goldsmith and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild were among his intimates; Diana, Princess of Wales, was godmother to his youngest son.
(15) More to the point, where is the female Judd Apatow, playing godmother to a new wave of funny ladies in femme-oriented comedies that allow their characters to live lives beyond Prada?
(16) What can we learn from the story of Zac and Sarah, the ragged orphans upon whom the benevolent fairy godmother of the DWP bestowed their enchanted kindness?
(17) "There are no police, no anybody," said Haryssa's despairing godmother, Kettely Clerge.
(18) At this point no one would be that surprised if Kensington Palace put out an easel declaring that she is going to be Prince George's godmother.
(19) Once his parents introduced him to amazing music; now he takes them out to his DJ sets, his mother and godmother joining him in the booth at Trouw in Amsterdam till 7.30am.
(20) He says he left mates behind and there’s a moment when he’s looking back on his career and talking about his best friends in football – “Álvaro Arbeloa: I’ve known him since I was 17, his wife’s godmother to my children and he helped me grow up, telling me to start behaving like an adult and a professional” – about how what matters most at any club is the dressing room.
Gossip
Definition:
(n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
(n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
(n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
(n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
(v. t.) To stand sponsor to.
(v. i.) To make merry.
(v. i.) To prate; to chat; to talk much.
(v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(3) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(4) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(5) That's the kind of insider gossip you get when you're a media player like me.
(6) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(7) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
(8) He likes the policy bit of politics rather more than the showbusiness, and there is no fodder for gossip in his personal life.
(9) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
(10) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
(11) It wasn't just women who gossiped in the queues for water: it was a community event.
(12) As a result of the disastrous supreme court Citizens United decision,” Sanders said, “billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates.” He also appealed for a campaigns without “gossip”, saying: “I’ve never run a negative ad in my life … I believe that in a democracy what elections are about are serious debates over serious issues.” “This is not the Red Sox versus the Yankees.” Progressive activists welcomed his entry into the race but continued to urge Warren, who is seen as a more polished performer, to compete against Clinton as well.
(13) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.
(14) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
(15) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(16) But with no arrests and no obvious external suspects, the girls' family have found themselves the subject of local gossip, newspaper speculation and background briefings intended to place them firmly in the frame.
(17) Matters of the utmost importance – such as inequality, poverty, exploitation, corporate crime and the destruction of the natural world – are neglected or marginalised, while trivial political gossip is elevated to the status of major news.
(18) According to reports , the Goody wedding issue of Richard Desmond's celebrity gossip magazine sold 1.8 million copies, more than three times its average circulation of 508,504 in the second half of 2008.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) He gossips about former colleagues and even offers theories about how to solve the developing international crisis in the Crimea – ban Russia from the Olympics, maybe.