Spanish Etymology From cotilla + -ear. Pronunciation IPA(key): /kotiʝeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʝeˈaɾ] IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kotiʝeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʝeˈaɾ] IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kotiʎeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʎeˈaɾ] IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kotiʃeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʃeˈaɾ] IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kotiʒeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʒeˈaɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: co‧ti‧lle‧ar Verb cotillear (first-person singular present cotilleo, first-person singular preterite cotilleé, past participle cotilleado) to gossip Synonyms: chismear, chismorrear, comadrear, copuchear, salsear Conjugation More information infinitive, gerund ... infinitive cotillear gerund cotilleando past participle masculine feminine singular cotilleado cotilleada plural cotilleados cotilleadas singular plural 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person indicative yo túvos él/ella/ellousted nosotrosnosotras vosotrosvosotras ellos/ellasustedes present cotilleo cotilleastúcotilleásvos cotillea cotilleamos cotilleáis cotillean imperfect cotilleaba cotilleabas cotilleaba cotilleábamos cotilleabais cotilleaban preterite cotilleé cotilleaste cotilleó cotilleamos cotilleasteis cotillearon future cotillearé cotillearás cotilleará cotillearemos cotillearéis cotillearán conditional cotillearía cotillearías cotillearía cotillearíamos cotillearíais cotillearían subjunctive yo túvos él/ella/ellousted nosotrosnosotras vosotrosvosotras ellos/ellasustedes present cotillee cotilleestúcotilleésvos2 cotillee cotilleemos cotilleéis cotilleen imperfect(ra) cotilleara cotillearas cotilleara cotilleáramos cotillearais cotillearan imperfect(se) cotillease cotilleases cotillease cotilleásemos cotilleaseis cotilleasen future1 cotilleare cotilleares cotilleare cotilleáremos cotilleareis cotillearen imperative — túvos usted nosotrosnosotras vosotrosvosotras ustedes affirmative cotilleatúcotilleávos cotillee cotilleemos cotillead cotilleen negative no cotillees no cotillee no cotilleemos no cotilleéis no cotilleen Close Conjugation of cotillear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs) 1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive. Related terms cotillacotilleocotillón Further reading “cotillear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10 Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.