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YENTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yenta mean?
• YENTA (noun)
The noun YENTA has 2 senses:
1. (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant
2. (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal
Familiarity information: YENTA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("yenta" is a kind of...):
shrew; termagant (a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("yenta" is a kind of...):
gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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