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To: Recovering_Democrat
yenta

What the heck is that? Some kind of bean, like blackeyed and butter and lima? Or is it some kind of weird New Age Al Goreian chant? The President and I are together on this one!

72 posted on 02/10/2002 5:24:05 PM PST by Cleburne
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To: Cleburne
"Yenta" is a Yiddish word that means a persistant and possibly haranging gossipy woman. In "Fiddler on the Roof," there was a character Yenta the matchmaker. She talked a lot, focused on her agenda and ignored what others said.

"To yent" meants "to gossip."

101 posted on 02/10/2002 9:12:12 PM PST by Ziva
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