yenta

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish יענטע (yente).

Noun

yenta (plural yentas)

  1. A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.
    Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta!
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 201:
      And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.

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