kvetch
to complain, especially chronically.
Also kvetcher. a person who kvetches.
Origin of kvetch
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How to use kvetch in a sentence
It really is just like gossiping—and, occasionally, kvetching—with a friend over a glass of wine.
She says she gets tired of all the “kvetching about our fate, when will the last newspaper hit the last stoop.”
Washington Post’s Katharine Weymouth Offers the ‘Story Behind the Story’ | Eleanor Clift | March 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe can cease our constant kvetching and, for a change, offer full-throated praise.
Nowadays you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Republican kvetching about deficits.
Why is Maci waitressing and Amber kvetching about paying the bills?
British Dictionary definitions for kvetch
/ (kvɛtʃ) /
(intr) slang, mainly US to complain or grumble, esp incessantly
Origin of kvetch
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