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kvetch

[ kvech ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to complain, especially chronically.


noun

  1. Also kvetcher. a person who kvetches.

kvetch

/ °ì±¹É›³Ùʃ /

verb

  1. slang.
    intr to complain or grumble, esp incessantly
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kvetch1

1960–65, Americanism; < Yiddish kvetshn literally, to squeeze, pinch; compare Middle High German, German quetschen
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kvetch1

C20: from Yiddish kvetshn, literally: to squeeze, press
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Three is either a charm or a curse – depending on your point of view – and there are plenty of people gloating or kvetching today.

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“People, and particularly women, tend to kvetch and converse and complain about what offends them, and then they vote according to what affects them,†she said.

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It’s a screeching, sputtering display of kvetching that builds runaway comic momentum.

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Then in the final year of the decade, that changed, and a glut of anxious men arrived, kvetching, quipping and dating shiksas.

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Edelman is struck — and perhaps a little soothed — by the amount of kvetching in the room.

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