u/i_dingus

In Chinese, 八卦 is slang for gossiping. Literally, the term means something like "eight trigrams", and it's a set of eight sacred symbols in Daoist cosmology. It started meaning "gossip" when entertainment magazines in the 1980s or 90s printed juicy gossip stories and used the symbols to... ward off bad luck? I'm not too sure. These magazines were nicknamed "八卦 news", and eventually the word turned into a verb that meant "to gossip".

瓜 ("melon") means "tea". the equivalent of "juicy gossip" would probably be "big melon". I might say something like 这个瓜太大了 ("this melon is too big") if some huge scandal broke out.

吃瓜 ("eat melon") means to watch drama unfold or listen to gossip and enjoying it as a bystander, kind of like "I brought popcorn".

Every single culture is bound to gossip, but the metaphors to describe it are going to be really local and will probably turn out really goofy if directly translated. so uh yeah lets go :D

laso if i see an english guy or somethign commenting "spill the tea" and getting a thousand upvotes im smashing my computer and deleting reddit (half joking)

I'm a native English speaker, and yesterday I saw someone painting a portrait from a weird perspective (from under the chin), which is really hard to do, so the first thing I said was: "Whoa, how are you perspective-ing so well?" I just subconsciously turned "perspective" into a verb.
Another really used phrase is "[noun] is not [noun]-ing", which means that something's failing or not working like it's supposed to. If my basketball was deflated and squishy, I might say "My basketball is not basketball-ing". Is there an equivalent of "[noun] is not [noun]-ing" in Spanish?
(I'm an American English speaker, I can't speak for other dialects of English.)

It's also common in Chinese. One of my favorite examples is the noun Versailles, the French palace, which got Chinese-ified into 凡尔赛 (fan2 er3 sai4), and now it's a verb that means something like humble-bragging or trying to sneakily imply that you're rich or better off than others.
For example, "收起你的凡尔赛" literally means "pack up your Versailles" and would mean "stop humble-bragging". Actually, I just learned a few days ago that 凡尔赛 came from "Versailles" since it's such common slang.

I was wondering if you could encounter the verbifying of nouns in informal or texting Spanish as well, or if that's just a weird quirk unique to the two languages I speak, lol