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語源

Borrowed from Yiddish יענטע‎ (yente).

名詞

yenta (複数形 yentas)

1. A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.

   Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta!

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 201:

     And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.

アナグラム

• Taney