yenta

(yen′tə)

noun

Slang a woman gossip or busybody

Origin: < Yente Telebende, name of a comic gossip in writings (1920s & 1930s) of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pseud. of Jacob Adler)

See yenta in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Slang

A person, especially a woman, who is meddlesome or gossipy.

Origin:

Origin: Yiddish yente

Origin: , back-formation from the woman's name Yente

Origin: , alteration of Yentl

Origin: , from Old Italian Gentile

Origin: , from gentile, amiable, highborn

Origin: , from Latin gentīlis, of the same clan; see gentle

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