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- noun Plural form of
yenta .
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Examples
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These tender young startups may be raring to play e-yentas, but before they can get started, they need to solve the same problem any social media venture confronts: community-building.
Online Dating Startups Drive Matchmaking Makeover Amy Lee 2011
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Well, the Bristol and Levi news brought the girls on The View (including even that right-wing nut, Laura Ingraham) together -- those yentas were all trying to figure it out.
Stanton Peele: Levi and Bristol, Modern-Day Romeo and Juliet? 2010
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Woman #2: Four yentas are having lunch in a restaurant.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Woman #2: Four yentas are having lunch in a restaurant.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Woman #2: Four yentas are having lunch in a restaurant.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Woman #2: Four yentas are having lunch in a restaurant.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Woman #2: Four yentas are having lunch in a restaurant.
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Well, the Bristol and Levi news brought the girls on The View (including even that right-wing nut, Laura Ingraham) together -- those yentas were all trying to figure it out.
Stanton Peele: Levi and Bristol, Modern-Day Romeo and Juliet? 2010
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Woman #2: Four yentas are having lunch in a restaurant.
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Josh Marshall and other yentas of the Progressive blogosphere thrive on defeat and discontentment.
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