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kvetch

  [kvech] Slang.
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–verb (used without object)
1. to complain, esp. chronically.
–noun
2. Also, kvetcher. a person who kvetches.
Origin:
1960–65, Americanism; < Yiddish kvetshn lit., to squeeze, pinch; cf. MHG, G quetschen
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kvetch   (kvěch)   
intr.v.   kvetched, kvetch·ing, kvetch·es
To complain persistently and whiningly.
n.  
  1. A chronic, whining complainer.
  2. A nagging complaint: "a rambling kvetch against the system" (Leonard Ross).

[Yiddish kvetshn, to squeeze, complain, from Middle High German quetzen, quetschen, to squeeze.]
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kvetch 
"to complain, whine," 1965, from Yiddish kvetshn, lit. "squeeze, press," from Ger. quetsche "crusher, presser."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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