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She minds your own business
Answer for the clue "She minds your own business ", 5 letters:
yenta
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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 ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yenta or Yente is a Yiddish designation for a woman who is a gossip or busybody. In the age of Yiddish theater, it started referring to a busybody or gossipmonger . The word has since become Yinglish (a Yiddish loanword in American Jewish English). In the ...
Usage examples of yenta.
B Tow, Thi Anh Tran, to lunch for her birthday, whose date Blood, the company yenta, had found in her folder.
Bewildered, I chose a spot on a bench in the corner, thoroughly ignored for a moment as half a dozen human beings brandishing wires, hoses, meters, instruments, tubes, monitors, bags, and bottles labored over that seventy-nine-pound yenta in her ninety-second year.
Talking to an old yenta like me, going to all this trouble just for a school paper.
I cursed Tilly for beaming at us like a yenta delighted to have knitted together another happy couple.
My rabbits, Denny the Yenta Drady, Jack Saunders, and John Engraft, were up front, nosing a path through the rice fields for the rest of us to follow.
B Tow, Thi Anh Tran, to lunch for her birthday, whose date Blood, the company yenta, had found in her folder.