6 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
verb make unwanted and intrusive comments
originFrom Yiddish קיבעצן (kibetsn), cognate to German kiebitzen (“to look on”), from German Kiebitz (“lapwing”), from Middle High German gibiz (“plover”), imitative of its cry. Compare peewit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0