or yente
noun
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
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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