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Noun yenta has 2 senses

• yenta(n = noun.person) Array - (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant; Array
is a kind of shrew, termagant

• yenta(n = noun.person) Array - (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal; Array
is a kind of gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger

THESAURUS

yenta

Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, a tale-bearing animal, backseat driver, busybody, eavesdropper, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, intermeddler, kibitzer, meddler, newsmonger, newspaperman, nosy Parker, prier, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, reporter, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumormonger, scandalmonger, scopophiliac, sightseer, snoop, snooper, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle-tattler, voyeur

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