Word For The Day, Wednesday, September 17, 2003: Kibitzer

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 09/17/2003 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

kibitzer \kuh-BIT-ser, or KI-but-ser\ noun
one who looks on and often offers unwanted advice or comment, especially at a card game;
broadly: one who offers opinions

kibitz \kuh-BITS, or KI-buts\ verb
to act as a kibitzer; to offer unsolicited and unwanted advice or comment, expecially at a card game

Example sentence: Fletcher had a reputation at the lunchtime card table as a kibitzer, always letting the players know how they should have played the previous hand.

Etymology: Yiddish kibetsn

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[VRWCmember]

He's going into work late today - so he won't asking for any beer at all!!!!

But, it's 5:00 somewhere!

[Constitution Day]

Los Angeles Council Approves Ban on Lap Dancing

The terrorists have won.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh ... yeah, Happy Birthday Constitution Day !!

[MeekOneGOP]

[VRWCmember]

I'm glad that Grimmy showed up for CD's birthday.

[Gabz]

Happy B'DAY, C'DAY!!!!!!!!!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Wow, I could never do that. I'm like your friend there.

I took toys apart when I was a kid, and that's how they stayed, lol ! ...

:O(

[Gabz]

I know - that's why I'm already on my second and he's out cutting grass.

[CSM]

Would a kibitzer be a kibitzer if I solicited advice? A stray cat found me yesterday and the poor thing is literally a bag of bones. I know that I need to get her to a vet and all that jazz, but in the meantime what would be a good diet to get her system going again?

Anyone that wants to be a kibitzer is welcome to step up and take a shot!

[secret garden]

Show-off? Me? I thought you would note the obvious similarities betwen our poems and take credit for inspiring me to try one. But show-off? Never, I'm far too shy.

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe !

[secret garden]

Happy Birthday to you!

[secret garden]

I'd start with soggy Purina kitten chow, to build her up a little. If you give them canned food, they'll starve themselves waiting for you to do it again, and again, and again. Plus, canned food is very smelly.

[Gabz]

Regardless of her age, if she is that bad off, I suggest treating her like a baby and give her milk and some kind of dry kitten food.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The 2 seat amphibious airplane I built from a kit was supposed to take 300 plus hours to assemble. I logged every minute in my builder's log and spent 200. I felt so weird that I spent another 50 going back over everything. The factory guys said it took two of them working together to finish anywhere near 200 hours. But it flew well for four years and I sold it to a doofus who forgot to raise the wheels for a water landing : (

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Hey, you're supposed to use the word, not the definition in a sentence.

Hey, Teacher, he's doing it wrong!

A kibitzer would stroll onto a thread, notice that the word kibitz has been used only twice in over 30 posts and tell the class that if they don't straighten up, she's telling the teacher.

(^;

[Gabz]

GMTA!!!!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yes you are shy and humble

[secret garden]

[CSM]

Great call on the canned food advice. I wouldn't have thought of that and I was definitely going to get some for her. Now a bad situation has been avoided. Thanks.