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Yenta vs Marplot - What's the difference?

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Yenta is a see also of marplot.


As nouns the difference between yenta and marplot

is that yenta is a woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a woman gossip; a gossipmonger while marplot is a meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.

yenta

English

(wikipedia yenta)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a woman gossip; a gossipmonger
  • * Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta !
  • a matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses.

    • marplot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.
  • * 1920 , , 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