kvetch
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From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn), from German Quetsche ‘crusher, presser’, from quetschen ‘crush, press’.
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kvetch (plural kvetches)
- Person who endlessly whines or complains.
- Person who finds fault with anything.
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Person who finds fault with anything
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kvetch (no comparative or superlative)
- Describing a kvetch or kvetcher.
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to kvetch (third-person singular simple present kvetches, present participle kvetching, simple past and past participle kvetched)
- To whine or complain, often needlessly.
- 1969, Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth? — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint
- 2001, Make a commitment, Charlie. Go with life or go with death, but quit the kvetching. Don’t keep us all in suspense. — Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil
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- kvetcher n

