V; To point out a reference, especially an obvious one. Usually killing the conversation, or causing awkward pauses in which members of the conversation revel in your self important sucking.
Overly insistent about something, to the point where the opposite is most likely true.
Someone emphatically stating how much one hates gossiping, that one would never engage in this sort of behavior. This implies that, "thou doth protest too much" and may in fact be a gossip.