Definition of "kibitz" []

• Informal To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To chat; converse. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Variations on "kibitz" show up in 10 cases, "maven" in four, "klutz" in three and "schlemiel" in five (two of which refer to Woody Allen)."
• "Let's kibitz by the fire; let's bake rugelach for Santa; and let's light unscented candles on a 12-branched candelabrum."
• "Occasionally, I even got the chance to kibitz a bit, as when one of the writers phoned my office to pick my brain on which members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (which I also edited) might be ready to make the leap to animation in the Superman episode “New Kids in Town”."