Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!katz@uci-750a From: katz%uci-750a@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: "Maven" Message-ID: <12535@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 21:56:02 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12535 Posted: Thu Aug 16 21:56:02 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:39:05 EDT Lines: 6 From: Martin D. KatzMaybe the confusion is with the word "Yente". Yente is often used in a slightly derogatory manner to mean a female busybody. Maven is sometimes used to mean a know-it-all, and in that context it means almost the same thing as Yente.