yenta

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Over time, it appears that “yenta” has come to stand for the character’s attributes, not unlike Dickens’s Scrooge, though with the opposite effect.

From New York Times

But at that point, matchmaking was moving beyond the yentas; it was on the threshold of becoming mainstream.

From Salon

Surely to the delight of the Red yentas, she brought my grandfather along.

From The New Yorker