different between rumour vs grapevine

English

Etymology

From Old French rumeur, from Latin r?mor (“common talk”).

Pronunciation

• * (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??u?m?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??u?m?/

Noun

rumour (countable and uncountable, plural rumours)

1. Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 26:

     Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.

2. (obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, JC II. iv. 18:

     Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.

Verb

rumour (third-person singular simple present rumours, present participle rumouring, simple past and past participle rumoured)

1. Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of rumor.

English

Etymology

grape +? vine

Noun

grapevine (plural grapevine or grapevines)

1. The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

   Synonym: winetree

2. A rumor.
3. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.

   Synonyms: jungle drums, bush telegraph, jungle telegraph, mulga wire, rumor mill

   • 1966, Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (songwriters), "I Heard It Through the Grapevine":

     I heard it through the grapevine

     Not much longer would you be mine.
4. (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
5. (wrestling) A leglock.

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Verb

grapevine (third-person singular simple present grapevines, present participle grapevining, simple past and past participle grapevined)

1. (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.