different between yenta vs marplot

English

Alternative forms

• yente

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (yente).

Noun

yenta (plural yentas)

1. A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.

   Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta!

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 201]:

     And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.

2. (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses.

Anagrams

• Taney

English

Etymology

From mar +? plot. In earliest use as a character name in The Busy Body,^[1] by Susanna Centlivre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??pl?t/

Noun

marplot (plural marplots)

1. A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others. [from 18th c.]
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter XI

     “The old marplot has discovered the baby,” Monica whispered. “I suppose it cried and woke him up, and now he thinks he's witness to a miracle.”

   • 2012, Michael Burleigh, ‘Keeping the Flame Alive’, Literary Review, 402:

     Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot, rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.

See also

• gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, intruder, buttinsky, busybody, yenta

Anagrams

• Lamport