词族 · yenta
词形变化
英语词源
- 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).
权威例句
- 1. She is well known as a yenta in this neighborhood.
- 她是这一带远近闻名的长舌妇.
- 2. Thanks, but Harvard doesn't give a degree in yenta.
- 谢谢你的称赞, 但是哈佛不提供鸡婆学位.