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yenta

[ yen-tuh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Slang.

a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of yenta¹

First recorded in 1930–35; from Yiddish yente, originally a female personal name, earlier Yentl, ultimately from Old Italian; compare Italian gentile “kind, amiable,” originally, “noble, highborn”; gentle

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Example Sentences

And who can forget Wolf Blitzer getting all Yenta-ish and creepy with quizzing the daughters about which ones were “available”?

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We were to land at a gulf called Yenta-ao, on the eastern coast of the peninsula, to the southwest of Pitsu-we.

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We had come to Wangchia-tun through pathless plains—he could not expect to go back to Yenta-ao without great difficulty.

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Late in the afternoon, he started for Yenta-ao on his machine.

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April 23, 2024inveterate

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