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yenta

/yen-tuh/US // ˈyɛn tə //

円城

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.

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Examples

  • And who can forget Wolf Blitzer getting all Yenta-ish and creepy with quizzing the daughters about which ones were “available”?

  • We were to land at a gulf called Yenta-ao, on the eastern coast of the peninsula, to the southwest of Pitsu-we.

  • We had come to Wangchia-tun through pathless plains—he could not expect to go back to Yenta-ao without great difficulty.

  • Late in the afternoon, he started for Yenta-ao on his machine.