kibitz

来自依地语kibitsen,乱发表意见或提供建议，来自德语gibitz,田凫，凤头麦鸡，拟声词，模仿这种鸟的叫声。引申词义叽叽喳喳，乱出主意，多管闲事。

kibitz (v.)

1927, from Yiddish kibitsen "to offer gratuitous advice as an outsider," from German kiebitzen "to look on at cards, to kibitz," originally in thieves' cant "to visit," from Kiebitz, name of a shore bird (European pewit, lapwing) with a folk reputation as a meddler, from Middle High German gibitz "pewit," imitative of its cry. Young lapwings are proverbially precocious and active, and were said to run around with half-shells still on their heads soon after hatching.

1. Workers gathered to munch, gossip, kibitz, laugh.

员工们聚拢来,大嚼, 闲话, 抢话,大笑.