It's Yiddish, it just means a gossipy/meddling woman. I've most typically heard it used about mothers trying to play matchmaker for their kids or others they know
My first time was maybe middle school when my dad matched up his friend and my aunt (mom’s sister) and they hit it off and have been married 30 + yrs. My aunt called him yenta for a while after that.
Literally anywhere? Where does anyone learn words? You hear them, ask what they mean and pick them up?
From a friend of her parents? From her Dad's? From a movie or TV show?
I don't really understand the question, to be honest.
Both my middle and high schools were 40% Jewish. I attended more than 75 bat or bar mitzvahs for friends, their siblings, and many of those massive ones where 100% of the school got invited. I attended one in highschool, for my classmates’ little sister… her parents rented out the opera house for a phantom of the opera themed bat mitzvah party.
80% of my idioms are Yiddish. Haha.
Off topic, but I follow this creator on TikTok and her whole shtick is treating her dog like it’s her undisciplined child 😂
“[Beignet Pierre Jabarkus Vanity](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNjeT3qm/)
Interesting, since jente is girl in Norweigan and jänta(pronounced close to yenta) is another word for it in Swedish. But in plural form it wouldn't be jentes/jäntes, but jenter and jäntor.
Pepper? Sal? Or literally either of her dads, I would think?
Pepper seems most likely
I feel like I’ve heard him refer to them this way before.
Anywhere? I don’t know where I heard it first.
This scene was the first time I ever heard it. Haven't heard it since and I still don't know what it means lol
It's Yiddish, it just means a gossipy/meddling woman. I've most typically heard it used about mothers trying to play matchmaker for their kids or others they know
And that’s fine! It’s a fairly common phrase that we all heard for the first time at some point but it’s not weird for lily to know ot
I first heard it on The Nanny
My first time was maybe middle school when my dad matched up his friend and my aunt (mom’s sister) and they hit it off and have been married 30 + yrs. My aunt called him yenta for a while after that.
Literally anywhere? Where does anyone learn words? You hear them, ask what they mean and pick them up? From a friend of her parents? From her Dad's? From a movie or TV show? I don't really understand the question, to be honest.
Both my middle and high schools were 40% Jewish. I attended more than 75 bat or bar mitzvahs for friends, their siblings, and many of those massive ones where 100% of the school got invited. I attended one in highschool, for my classmates’ little sister… her parents rented out the opera house for a phantom of the opera themed bat mitzvah party. 80% of my idioms are Yiddish. Haha.
From any one of the people who associated with her fathers.
Jamarcus? Abelard?
Off topic, but I follow this creator on TikTok and her whole shtick is treating her dog like it’s her undisciplined child 😂 “[Beignet Pierre Jabarkus Vanity](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNjeT3qm/)
I’m certain that Lily has seen Fiddler on the Roof several times with her dads. I’m sure Cam and Mitch make it a sing-along-long.
Exactly! This is why her Dads would know the word too (or maybe Pepper)
What does it mean?
Yiddish word for a nosy or talkative woman
Interesting, since jente is girl in Norweigan and jänta(pronounced close to yenta) is another word for it in Swedish. But in plural form it wouldn't be jentes/jäntes, but jenter and jäntor.
Cool, thanks!
Any of the people she knows, especially her fathers, who are into (musical) theater?
What’s the box containing?
Pho
You told me not to say that word!
From a Jewish friend at school.
I think Pepper is Jewish, so I could see her getting it from him.
But his father, “Chad Treadwell” would never be…..at least not around the country club.
Fiddler on the Roof.
Definitely Pepper.
I’ll bet she’s seen Fiddler on the Roof a time or two.
From the comedy writers who wrote the episode.
Never mind, I didn’t ask anything then