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 

• YENTA (noun)

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)