yenta
英['jent?]
美['j?nt?]
- n. 長舌婦；好管閑事的女人；搬弄是非的女人
詞態變化
復數:?yentas;
英文詞源
- yenta (n.)
- "gossip, busybody," 1923, from Yente Telebende, comic strip gossip in 1920s-30s writing of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pen-name of Jacob Adler) in the "Jewish Daily Forward." It was a common Yiddish fem. proper name, altered from Yentl and said to be ultimately from Italian gentile "kind, gentle," earlier "noble, high-born" (see gentle).
雙語例句
- 1. She is well known as a yenta in this neighborhood.
- 她是這一帶遠近聞名的長舌婦.
來自互聯網
- 2. Thanks, but Harvard doesn't give a degree in yenta.
- 謝謝你的稱贊, 但是哈佛不提供雞婆學位.
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