Usually means: Gossipy, meddlesome person; often female.
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  1. yenta: Merriam-Webster
  2. yenta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yenta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yenta: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yenta: Vocabulary.com
  6. Yenta, yenta: Wordnik
  7. yenta: Wiktionary
  8. yenta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. yenta: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. yenta: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. yenta: Dictionary.com
  12. yenta: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Yenta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. yenta: Rhymezone
  15. yenta: FreeDictionary.org
  16. yenta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. yenta: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. YENTA: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yenta (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. yenta: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yenta)

▸ noun:  (Jewish) A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.

Similar:
yente, busybody, gossipeuse, biddy, tattletale, gossiper, busy body, pragmatic, tittle-tattler, newsmonger, more...

Adjectives:
old, mongol, turbulent, such, big, real
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Similar:
yente, busybody, gossipeuse, biddy, tattletale, gossiper, busy body, pragmatic, tittle-tattler, newsmonger, more...

Adjectives:
old, mongol, turbulent, such, big, real



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