dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/kib_MW.json

{
  "kibbitz":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to act as a kibitzer":[],
      ": to exchange comments : chat":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "They sat around kibitzing about their children.",
      "My uncle likes to kibitz when I play poker with my cousins.",
      "He likes to kibitz our poker games.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Guys who kibitz , inform and entertain all the way through. \u2014 Evan Grant, Dallas News , 12 Nov. 2020",
      "Instead, Cora and other members of the baseball operations staff enjoyed kibitzing with Celtics coach Brad Stevens, a visiting dignitary to Fenway in one of the organization\u2019s busiest \u2014 and in some ways, most exciting \u2014 weeks of the year. \u2014 Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Jan. 2020",
      "Failed ex-candidates should kibitz seldom, and then without coy evasions; Mrs. Clinton deserved the rebuke. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 24 Oct. 2019",
      "Her approach comes out of the early online communities that sprang up around shows, where fans could kibitz and argue, exchanging detailed exegeses of episodes and (back then) bootleg videotapes. \u2014 Jennifer Szalai, New York Times , 3 July 2019",
      "The giggle of the stream is usually the loudest sound \u2026 like kids kibitzing over candy. \u2014 Chris Erskine, latimes.com , 6 June 2019",
      "Some tried to keep close watch over his kibitzing with guests during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan\u2019s visit to Palm Beach, Fla., last week, according to two people familiar with the planning. \u2014 Katie Rogers, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2018",
      "After his first-place score of 87.16 flashed, and with a handful of riders still up top, there was 17-year-old shredder Red Gerard kibitzing with none other than IOC President Thomas Bach. \u2014 USA TODAY , 10 Feb. 2018",
      "Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Alex spends more time kibitzing with customers on the selling floor than inside his office. \u2014 Steven Kurutz, New York Times , 29 Mar. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Yiddish kibetsn or German kiebitzen \"to look on (at a card game),\" both borrowed from Rotwelsch (German underworld argot) kiebitschen, chippischen, gippischen \"(of the police) to search out, patrol,\" of obscure origin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ki-b\u0259ts",
      "k\u0259-\u02c8bits"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "babble",
      "blab",
      "cackle",
      "chaffer",
      "chat",
      "chatter",
      "chin",
      "converse",
      "gab",
      "gabble",
      "gas",
      "jabber",
      "jaw",
      "natter",
      "palaver",
      "patter",
      "prate",
      "prattle",
      "rap",
      "rattle",
      "run on",
      "schmooze",
      "shmooze",
      "talk",
      "twitter",
      "visit"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013548",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "kibitz":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to act as a kibitzer":[],
      ": to exchange comments : chat":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "They sat around kibitzing about their children.",
      "My uncle likes to kibitz when I play poker with my cousins.",
      "He likes to kibitz our poker games.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Guys who kibitz , inform and entertain all the way through. \u2014 Evan Grant, Dallas News , 12 Nov. 2020",
      "Instead, Cora and other members of the baseball operations staff enjoyed kibitzing with Celtics coach Brad Stevens, a visiting dignitary to Fenway in one of the organization\u2019s busiest \u2014 and in some ways, most exciting \u2014 weeks of the year. \u2014 Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Jan. 2020",
      "Failed ex-candidates should kibitz seldom, and then without coy evasions; Mrs. Clinton deserved the rebuke. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 24 Oct. 2019",
      "Her approach comes out of the early online communities that sprang up around shows, where fans could kibitz and argue, exchanging detailed exegeses of episodes and (back then) bootleg videotapes. \u2014 Jennifer Szalai, New York Times , 3 July 2019",
      "The giggle of the stream is usually the loudest sound \u2026 like kids kibitzing over candy. \u2014 Chris Erskine, latimes.com , 6 June 2019",
      "Some tried to keep close watch over his kibitzing with guests during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan\u2019s visit to Palm Beach, Fla., last week, according to two people familiar with the planning. \u2014 Katie Rogers, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2018",
      "After his first-place score of 87.16 flashed, and with a handful of riders still up top, there was 17-year-old shredder Red Gerard kibitzing with none other than IOC President Thomas Bach. \u2014 USA TODAY , 10 Feb. 2018",
      "Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Alex spends more time kibitzing with customers on the selling floor than inside his office. \u2014 Steven Kurutz, New York Times , 29 Mar. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Yiddish kibetsn or German kiebitzen \"to look on (at a card game),\" both borrowed from Rotwelsch (German underworld argot) kiebitschen, chippischen, gippischen \"(of the police) to search out, patrol,\" of obscure origin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ki-b\u0259ts",
      "k\u0259-\u02c8bits"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "babble",
      "blab",
      "cackle",
      "chaffer",
      "chat",
      "chatter",
      "chin",
      "converse",
      "gab",
      "gabble",
      "gas",
      "jabber",
      "jaw",
      "natter",
      "palaver",
      "patter",
      "prate",
      "prattle",
      "rap",
      "rattle",
      "run on",
      "schmooze",
      "shmooze",
      "talk",
      "twitter",
      "visit"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233639",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "kibbitzer":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "k\u0259-\u02c8bit-",
      "\u02c8ki-b\u0259t-s\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "busybody",
      "buttinsky",
      "buttinski",
      "interferer",
      "interloper",
      "intermeddler",
      "intruder",
      "meddler",
      "nosey parker"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a nosy kibitzer who always knows who is dating whom",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The problem is partly a failure to appreciate that the Radicals were kibitzers , as many legislators are. \u2014 Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic , 12 Mar. 2020",
      "Most Americans by now have probably figured out the kibitzer -in-chief\u2019s tweets lack the force of policy, much less the force of law. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 12 Mar. 2019",
      "They were intently focused, paying no attention to the parade of gym-goers, game-players and kibitzers noisily passing by. \u2014 Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post , 27 Feb. 2018",
      "Ms. Paulson makes her a flawed but tragic heroine: a divorced mom, strapped for child care, battling a legal hydra made of money while the tabloids pick at her hairstyle and kibitzers tell her to smile more. \u2014 James Poniewozik, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2016",
      "Though all of Mr. Nelson\u2019s Rhinebeck plays have featured strong female characters, in this one, he more or less turns the stage over to them entirely (though Mr. Sanders, wonderful as always, is a gallant kibitzer ). \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 9 Nov. 2016"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Yiddish kibetser, from kibetsn \"to kibitz \" + -er -er entry 2":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1922, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142029"
  }
}