Bruit or bruited
verb
past tense: bruited; past participle: bruited
spread (a report or rumour) widely.
"I didn't want to have our relationship bruited about the office."
I can remember hearing this quite often as a child, but not for a long time now.
Derived from an old french word meaning noise or sound. I can also remember people talking about a story being 'noised abroad', not necessarily meaning to foreign parts, which sounds almost Shakespearean.
