yenta
[ yen-tuh ]
nounSlang.
a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
Origin of yenta
1First recorded in 1930–35; from Yiddish yente, originally a female personal name, earlier Yentl, ultimately from Old Italian; compare Italian gentile “kind, amiable,” originally, “noble, highborn”; see gentle
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How to use yenta in a sentence
When it comes to gossip, my fellow comics could put a couple of Boca yentas to shame.
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