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Another word for yenta

noun

(Slang)

A person habitually engaged in idle talk about others:

blab, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattler, tattletale, telltale, whisperer. See words

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Arranged marriages in the Jewish tradition, for example, were often arranged by a yenta or "matchmaker" and the bride and groom might not even meet until their wedding day.

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