yenta
英 ['jentə]
美 ['jɛntə]
英語の語源
- 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).
例文
- 1. She is well known as a yenta in this neighborhood.
- 彼女はこの一帯の遠近で有名なおしゃべりだ。
- 2.Thanks,but Harvard doesn 't give a degree in yenta .
- 褒めてくれてありがとう。でもハーバードは鶏婆学位を提供していません。
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