English Explanatory Dictionary

second guesser

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who second-guesses.
  2. A person, particularly a fan, who questions or criticizes decisions made by the players or managers, especially after the results of those actions are known.

Word forms

second guesser second guessers second-guesser

Etymology

From second + guesser. First use appears c. 1937. By a back-formation, second-guess as a verb appears a few years later in 1941. From second guess + -er.

Derived words

second-guess
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