| 释义 |
yentz, v. U.S. slang.|jɛnts|
[Yiddish, f. yentzen to copulate.]
trans. To cheat, to swindle (see also quot. 1939). Also fig. Cf. screw v. 6 d, 13.
1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 458/2 Yentz, to cheat. ‘They try to yentz me out of me end.’ 1939Amer. Speech XIV. 240/2 To yentz, to cheat; to fornicate. 1969S. J. Perelman in Holiday Mar. 104/4 The faintness one characteristically experiences on discovering that he has been yentzed. 1978J. Krantz Scruples x. 276 ‘I don't yentz them,’ Maggie explained, Coca-Cola-colored eyes all innocence, ‘they just yentz themselves and I try not to run out of tape.’ |