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KIBITZER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kibitzer mean?
• KIBITZER (noun)
The noun KIBITZER has 1 sense:
1. (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others
Familiarity information: KIBITZER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("kibitzer" is a kind of...):
meddler (an officious annoying person who interferes with others)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
Derivation:
kibitz (make unwanted and intrusive comments)
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