kibitzer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: kib=itz=er

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kibitzer, n. colloq.
1 an onlooker at cards etc., esp. one who offers unwanted advice.
2 a busybody, a meddler.

Etymology

Yiddish kibitser f. G Kiebitz lapwing, busybody

THESAURUS

kibitzer

Dutch uncle, Paul Pry, Polonius, TV-viewer, admonisher, adviser, backseat driver, beholder, bird-watcher, busybody, butt-in, buttinsky, bystander, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, drugstore cowboy, expert, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, guide, instructor, intermeddler, looker, looker-on, meddler, mentor, monitor, nestor, observer, ogler, onlooker, orienter, perceiver, percipient, pragmatist, preceptist, prier, pry, quidnunc, rubberneck, seer, sidewalk superintendent, snoop, snooper, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, teacher, televiewer, television-viewer, video-gazer, viewer, watcher, witness, yenta