kibitz KIB-its, verb:
1. To chat; converse.
2. To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others.
The servers, too, hit the right tone for a neighborhood restaurant — not afraid to kibitz a little when they see you're open to it, but respectful of your time and your time with your tablemates.
-- Jonathan Kauffman, "At Frances, sometimes less is less," SF Weekly
I enjoy best working in solitude. I do not like having buddies drop by to kibitz. And that is how I spent much of my free time in Atlanta.
-- Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico, My American journey
It derives from the Yiddish kibetsn, which is equivalent to the German kiebitzen, "to look on at cards."
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