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kvetch    Audio Help   [kvech] Pronunciation Key Slang.
–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    Audio Help   (kvěch)  Pronunciation Key 
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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kvetch

noun
1. (Yiddish) a constant complainer 
2. (Yiddish) a nagging complaint 

verb
1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" [syn: complain] [ant: cheer

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