Meaning yenta
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yenta"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.&q [..]
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yenta(n) (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant(n) (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal
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