chelp
verb 2
Definitions
verb
1
To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
He's not here so we are chelping in the staffroom and ignoring the to-do list on the board.
1820, John Clare, “My Mary” in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor and Hessey, p. 87, Who’s laugh’d at too by every whelp, For failings which she cannot help? But silly fools will laugh and chelp, My Mary.
2
To speak rudely or out of turn.
The teacher got angry at all her chelping.
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