A rumour, a whispered report.
“Yes, that, on every dream,
Each buzz, each fancy …
He may enguard his dotage.”
Shakespeare: King Lear, i. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.