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.

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Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[xsmommy]

maybe they won't. xspup was smart as a whip and it never occurred to him either. i have no idea what possessed xs2pup to get up there, but now that he knows about it, he has to be put in the laundry room at meal time.

[Bella_Bru]

Are you still trying to train Xspup????

[xsmommy]

this is xs2pup, see my homepage. he is only 4 mo. old.

[Argh]

HAR again! I didn't forget it, it just never happened!

I would have had to make xs a scurrilous proposition, and that's not likely because I don't go in for that cheap physical stuff...

[Texan5]

That is interesting-first time I've heard that from another guy. Hubby had a bike he rode to work then, but he couldn't ride it for a couple of months after his either, because he said the vibration was too painful. He got rid of the bike a few months later, because the city is not mototcycle friendly at all, unlike his previous duty station in California. Now that we live and work out here, he is talking about getting another bike, because this is a very motorcycle friendly area-lots of people ride bikes to work and on weekend jaunts.

[xsmommy]

#1 i would never snub you, #2, you would not forget it if anything DID happen, i assure you : )

[Bella_Bru]

OMG! He is adorable!!!!

[xsmommy]

yes. he is. : )

[Argh]

I'm glad I'm not a dog. You've probably told us before, Tex, but what kind or kinds of dogs do you have?

[Bella_Bru]

Fairly well behaved? Is he a cocker spaniel or a king charles spaniel?

[Laura Earl]

I'll never tell Flurry what my 16 y.o. cat did atop the table many years ago when he was a nimble young cat.

[xsmommy]

he is exceptionallly well behaved, other than walking around on the kitchen table trying to eat off your plate... and yes, a cavalier.

[Texan5]

Wow, I'm going to Barnes and Noble in the city when I'm there next and get that book. I always wonder what my two pupster girls are really thinking when they do weird stuff.

[Argh]

#1 i would never snub you

That's very sweet, or, if you prefer, very un-PMS-y of you! But you haven't seen my beer belly yet. Miss C has (covered in a shirt the whole time), and she was very kind about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if some stranger thought for a second this was some deformed woman with one huge breast in the middle of her torso approaching! (You'd think the mustache and male garb would be a giveaway, though, wouldn't you?)

[xsmommy]

lots of guys have beer bellies. that does not make them unappealing. i have it on good authority that miss dragon found you very appealing... : )

[Bella_Bru]

but I wouldn't be surprised if some stranger thought for a second this was some deformed woman with one huge breast in the middle of her torso approaching! (You'd think the mustache and male garb would be a giveaway, though, wouldn't you?)

Arghie, I have seen your pics on Sea's website, Hunks o' Hot Lovin', and I think you looked good. ;-)

[hobbes1]

But you haven't seen my beer belly yet. Miss C has

I heard Miss Whyisa tried to drain it through the tap....

[Texan5]

I have an Australian Shepard and a Siberian Husky. The Aussie is a white merle, and the Husky is gray/white like a gray wolf. Both have blue eyes.

[Bella_Bru]

Bee bellies are NOT UNappealing at all. Many a sexy man has a beer belly. :-)

[Bella_Bru]

That was so mean!