yenta

Last week, she and her fellow “abortion yentas” mobbed the Spanish Colonial Revival building to pressure the city to just let it go.

What makes "The Nanny" unique is the breath of fresh air brought by curly-haired, mini-skirted Fran, with her yenta mother and her senile yet groovy Romanian immigrant grandmother.

A natural storyteller with a yenta’s love of mischief, Fierstein paints a vivid portrait of his youth in Bensonhurst, the neighborhood made famous by “The Honeymooners” and “Saturday Night Fever.”

I also liked that she was someone local with local connections who was just trying to be a yenta.

Most book scouts are literary yentas, hoping to make a match, having little control over the result.