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kibitzes

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kib⋅itz

  [kib-its] Informal.
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–verb (used without object)
1. to act as a kibitzer.
–verb (used with object)
2. to offer advice or criticism to as a kibitzer: to kibitz the team from the bleachers.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; < Yiddish kibetsn, equiv. to G kiebitzen to look on at cards, deriv. of Kiebitz busybody, lit., lapwing, plover
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kib·itz   (kĭb'ĭts)   
intr.v.   kib·itzed, kib·itz·ing, kib·itz·es Informal

  1. To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others.

  2. To chat; converse.


[Yiddish kibitsen, from German kiebitzen, from Kiebitz, pewit, kibitzer, from Middle High German gībitz, pewit, of imitative origin.]
kib'itz·er n.
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