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There also is the chance to watch top chefs from New York City and suburbs cook and kibitz.
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They kibitz and shoot the breeze, fueled by endless coffee refills and the occasional sweet roll.
From the sacbee.com
But we in the US, want to kibitz what the Democrats came up with.
From the economist.com
I love to converse and kibitz and laugh and carry on.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
After that, I'll kibitz on the field with other reporters.
From the nytimes.com
Guys who liked sports didn't just kibitz from the sofa, they went out and played softball or bowled.
From the time.com
Clinton didn't just want to kibitz or to confide.
From the newsweek.com
Of course, we'll be there to kibitz.
From the sfgate.com
I'll kibitz with my friends.
From the sacbee.com
- Make unwanted and intrusive comments
- A kibitzer is a non-participant who hangs around a game, offering (often unwanted) advice or commentary. This Yiddish term is used in Contract bridge, Chess, Go, and many other games.
- To chat; to gossip; to make small talk or idle chatter; To give unsolicited or unwanted advice or make unhelpful or idle comments, especially to someone playing a game
- Meddle: We like to kibitz about everyone's affairs.
- To look on and offer unsolicited, meddlesome advice; to make wisecracks when others are trying to work or speak seriously.
- For spectators to advise/coach the players. In tournament play this is illegal.
- Describes someone who offers meddlesome advice. In Chess, a spectator who makes comments about a game in progress, which the players can hear, is a Kibitzer (and that's being polite!). At tournaments Kibitzing is seen as bad etiquette. "It's just not cricket".
- To offer advice as a spectator - a dangerous pastime.
- As a spectator, making comments on a chess game that can be heard by the players. Kibitzing on a serious game while it is in progress (rather than during a post-mortem) is a breach of etiquette.
