yenta
yenta definition
yenta or yente yen′te (yen′tə)
noun
Slang a woman gossip or busybody
Etymology: < Yente Telebende, name of a comic gossip in writings (1920s & 1930s) of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pseud. of Jacob Adler)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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