yenta

yenta
Synonyms and related words:
Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, a tale-bearing animal, backseat driver, busybody, eavesdropper, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, intermeddler, kibitzer, meddler, newsmonger, newspaperman, nosy Parker, prier, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, reporter, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumormonger, scandalmonger, scopophiliac, sightseer, snoop, snooper, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle-tattler, voyeur

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  • Yenta — (pronounced IPA|) is a Yiddish female name which is still in use. In the age of Yiddish theater, it started referring to a or . The word has since become Yinglish (a Yiddish loanword in American Jewish English).*It was also the name of the… …   Wikipedia

  • yenta — (n.) gossip, busybody, 1923, from Yente Telebende, comic strip gossip in 1920s 30s writing of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pen name of Jacob Adler) in the Jewish Daily Forward. It was a common Yiddish fem. proper name, altered from Yentl …   Etymology dictionary

  • yenta — or yente [yen′tə] n. [< Yente Telebende, name of a comic gossip in writings (1920s & 1930s) of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pseud. of Jacob Adler)] Slang a woman gossip or busybody …   English World dictionary

  • yenta — [“jenta] n. a gossip, usually a woman. (Regarded as Yiddish.) □ She can be such a yenta when she’s got news. □ Tracy is a yenta if ever there was one …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • yenta — n a shrewish woman, a gossip or crone. The word is a middle European Jewish woman s name or title (probably related to forms of the word gentile ). The yenta became a comic figure in Jewish folklore, particularly in the American Yiddish theatre… …   Contemporary slang

  • yenta —    (YEN tah) [Yiddish] A woman who gossips excessively; a busybody; a nosy, gossipy woman. By extension, any obsessive talker; a gossip.    Smith said Gretzky is a “hockey yenta” who likes to keep informed of rumors and scuttlebutt through his… …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

  • yenta — noun Etymology: Yiddish yente, from the name Yente Date: 1923 one that meddles; also blabbermouth, gossip …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • yenta — /yen teuh/, n. Slang. a person, esp. a woman, who is a busybody or gossip. [1930 35; < Yiddish yente, orig. a female personal name, earlier Yentl OIt; cf. It gentile kind, amiable, orig., noble, highborn; see GENTLE] * * * …   Universalium

  • yenta — noun a) a woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a woman gossip; a gossipmonger b) a matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses …   Wiktionary

  • yenta — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. A person habitually engaged in idle talk about others: blab, gossip, gossiper, gossip monger, newsmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattler, tattletale, telltale,… …   English dictionary for students

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