kibitzer
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- noun
- /ˈkɪbɪtsər/
- Every community in which we lived—this one happened to be in Omaha, Nebraska—had its kibitzers, men who came to the synagogue strictly for purposes of socializing.
- one of the kibitzers
Examples
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The kibitzer was drinking a can of Miller's.
Fiction book (1994) -
And kibitzers, every one of them.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm no kibitzer.
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But a successful bluff is best not proclaimed, particularly one that you guess has been aided by the kibitzer behind your back.
Fiction book (1997) -
The kibitzers in the press corps and political buffs in general tend to remember that kind of thing—even if they forget that Dan Quayle was actually elected vice president that year.
Blog text (16) -
Many spectators became kibitzers during the chess match, offering unsolicited advice to the players.
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As a kibitzer, he couldn't resist commenting on the strategies used in the game, even though he wasn't a participant.
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At the party, she was labeled a kibitzer for continuously interrupting the discussions with her opinions.
Synonyms
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A person who gets involved in other people's business and annoys them
Someone who interrupts you when you are working or thinking
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kibitzer comes from Yiddish and an old German bird name Kiebitz, which means 'lapwing' and was used for people who looked on and called out. So a kibitzer is like a spectator who gives unwanted advice.