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yenta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Yenta or
Yente (Yiddish: יענטע) is a
Yiddish woman's
given name. It is a
variant form of the name Yentl...
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performed two solo shows. "
Yenta Unplugged"
celebrates Jewish women through comedy and music. The
second show, "The
Yenta Cometh" is
about the
price one...
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Yentl may
refer to: A
variant of
Yenta Yentl the
Yeshiva Boy,
short story by
Isaac Bashevis Singer in
Short Friday and
Other Stories (1963)
Yentl (play)...
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Francisco Chronicle. [1][dead link] Nate
Bloom (May 13, 2011), "Royal
yenta,
Unlikely couple news, From Prom to Shadows", J. The
Jewish News of Northern...
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Fiddler on the Roof is a
matchmaker named Yente.
Because of this, the name
Yenta (יענטע) is
sometimes mistakenly taken to be a
synonym for shadchan. Shadch****...
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Hachesed ‘Chasdei Pesia’ is a
charity established in
memory of his wife,
Pesia Yenta Weiss. He is the Rosh
Kollel of
Machon Minchas Osher L’Torah V’Horaah. Weiss...
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dumps Lila (Jeannie Berlin), a "kvetchy Jew" and "sloppy,
incipient yenta", for the girl of his dreams, an all-American WASP. The film is a deadpan...
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backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot,
gossipmonger and
yenta.
There are also some more
derisive terms such as
buttinsky or busybody....
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formal in
dress and manners. (יעקע, yeke, 'jacket'; cf. German: Jacke; OED)
Yenta (variants: yente, yentl): A
talkative woman; a gossip; a
scold (יענטע, yente...
- boy from
Texas who got '
yenta'". She was
referring to Vinay, who is
actually from Marietta, Ohio, and his
pronunciation of "
yenta,"
shown in the film. He...
