Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To chat; converse.
- intransitive verb To offer unwanted or meddlesome advice, such as that given by the spectator of a card game.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
chat ; togossip ; to makesmall talk or idle chatter. - verb To give unsolicited or unwanted
advice or make unhelpful or idle comments, especially to someone playing agame .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make unwanted and intrusive comments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Variations on "kibitz" show up in 10 cases, "maven" in four, "klutz" in three and "schlemiel" in five (two of which refer to Woody Allen).
Shnook & Shnook 2008
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Moms can kibitz and kvell about why their kids are such a great catch and what they're looking for in a match.
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I love it when other people do the heavy lifting and I can just kibitz around the corners.
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I love it when other people do the heavy lifting and I can just kibitz around the corners.
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I love it when other people do the heavy lifting and I can just kibitz around the corners.
Milestone musings 2010
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Occasionally, I even got the chance to kibitz a bit, as when one of the writers phoned my office to pick my brain on which members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (which I also edited) might be ready to make the leap to animation in the Superman episode “New Kids in Town”.
Superman: The Complete Animated Series » DVDs Worth Watching 2009
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Let's kibitz by the fire; let's bake rugelach for Santa; and let's light unscented candles on a 12-branched candelabrum.
Danny Licht: Jews for Christmas, or How to Make the Holidays Less Blue Danny Licht 2011
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Bookninja began as an online forum for a bunch of writers to kibitz and argue about the state of the book world but has since evolved into … an online form for a bunch of writers to kibitz and argue about the book world.
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Let's kibitz by the fire; let's bake rugelach for Santa; and let's light unscented candles on a 12-branched candelabrum.
Danny Licht: Jews for Christmas, or How to Make the Holidays Less Blue Danny Licht 2011
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Bookninja began as an online forum for a bunch of writers to kibitz and argue about the state of the book world but has since evolved into … an online form for a bunch of writers to kibitz and argue about the book world.
nickmiller commented on the word kibitz
I like the idea that senseless chatter is like the twitter of little birds... to human ears! Of course, to bird ears it's information-rich: 'back off; danger coming; mate with me'.
May 8, 2007