Yenta

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Yenta (pronounced [ˈjɛnta]) is a Yiddish female name.

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).

• It was also the name of the matchmaker in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof and the word has also come to mean "matchmaker" in modern usage.

• The name of the Linux CardBus controller driver, which brings together Cardbus cards with the rest of the computer.

• It is also the fictional electronic match making PDA featured in the film Shortbus.

• Was used satirically in the 1967 "Get Smart" episode "The Man from YENTA", where it was composed of the initials of "Your Espionage Network and Training Academy", a fictitious Israeli secret service organization.

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