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• yenta or yente – a talkative woman; a gossip; a blabbermouth; a scold. Used as the name of the matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof", who personifies these qualities.
• yichus – pedigree, family background, an advantage
• Yiddishe Mama – a stereotypical Jewish mother
• Yiddisher kop – intelligence (lit. "Jewish head"; German "Jüdischer Kopf" – Jewish head)
• yiddisher mazel – bad luck (lit. "Jewish luck")
• Yontiff – a Jewish holiday on which work is forbidden, e.g. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach (from the Hebrew "Yom Tov", Good Day, or Holiday)
• yungotch – a rascal