yenta

Example Sentences

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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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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