The word entrÃ©e (pronounced ON-tray) in the culinary arts can be confusing because it's one of those words that means the precise opposite in some parts of the world of what it means in other parts. In the United States, the word entrÃ©e is often used to signify the part of a meal that you would think of as the main course.
kibitzer. 1  a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice. 2  a giver of uninvited or unwanted advice. 3  a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks, especially while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously.
Yubitsume (æè©°ã, finger shortening) is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger. It is almost exclusively performed by the Yakuza, the prominent Japanese criminal organization.he ritual is thought to have originated with the bakuto, itinerant gamblers who were predecessors of the modern Yakuza. If a person was unable to pay off a gambling debt, yubitsume was sometimes considered as an alternate form of repayment.