NOUN
- (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant
- (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal
How To Use yenta In A Sentence
- Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Pretty Woman
- Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Archive 2008-03-01
- A knot of walkers wanders up the trail to Weeping Rock, where springs emerge from the base of cliffs at the contact point between porous Navajo sandstone and impermeable Kayenta shale.
- Her people's era on West 107th long since past, Mrs. Weissman had no fondness for the coarse new crowd, and in truth, was a kind of pitiable figure - a yenta who had lost her nosiness.
- Weiss said the "yenta" part of the Web site's name refers to the enormous amount of personal information that is shared and consumed on the site. J. Weekly
- Last time I spoke up I got called a yenta, at Crumbs no less. Brownstoner
- The Glen Canyon Group was deposited in a large retroarc basin, with the crossbedded eolian Navajo Sandstone in a complex gradational contact with the underlying fluvially-dominated Kayenta Formation PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Pretty Woman
- Trend micro house has its yenta as an decreasing echelon, tenebrionid magniloquently anabiotic dasyatidae in an dishy pharmacologic batrachomyomachia. Rational Review
- About half or more of the “millionaire” guys she has to fix up are Jewish and yenta supremo Patty constantly derides them as “nerds” and “nebbishes” to the flotilla of girls she gathers up to meet them. Matthew Yglesias » Life, According to Patti Stanger