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Yenta

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Noun

1. yenta

(Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant

2. yenta

(Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yenta

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noun
US informal
an interfering gossipy woman
when some yenta asks me, 'Why are you single?'

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Yenta

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noun
Slang
a woman gossip or busybody

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yenta

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n.
Slang
A person, especially a woman, who is considered to be meddlesome or gossipy.

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