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UK
/kˈeɪvˈɛtʃ/
]
[ US /ˈkvɛtʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈkvɛtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- (Yiddish) a nagging complaint
- (Yiddish) a constant complainer
VERB
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express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
My mother complains all day
She has a lot to kick about
How To Use kvetch In A Sentence
- Elle, whoever you are (who are you?) you certainly are a kvetcher and a complainer. Scripting News for 8/24/2006 « Scripting News Annex
- Just think, if the people who are now kvetching about freedom of speech simply posted their names on the website, then none of the speculation would have happened.
- Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so. November 2003 ~ Angry Bear
- He kvetched and annoyed his way out of the game, voted out because no one could stand to be around him a moment longer. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild!
- My one kvetch was that not enough music was played from the Train A Comin’ album.
- I ` m calling her Foxy the fetcher, and I calling my mother Mom the kvetcher. CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2008
- I don't like the idea of stiffnecked government officials deciding what we can and can't read -- and when you ban a site like Kynhun (an e-group that discussed the petty corruption of petty officials in Meghalaya as well as the possibility of seceding from the Indian union), you create a genuine grievance out of a minor kvetch. Archive 2004-06-01
- Could our laundry listing kvetcher be bitchin about how Virginia is now becoming as culturally diverse as a cosmopolitan city like DC? House of Delegates Preview- Part 1
- She wriggled and kvetched, though she seemed happier in the Next Gen ep before that. Committee meetings
- A Woody Allen-type nebbish, Lenny is a kvetcher ( "My mind was full of sickening Jewish worry, the pogrom within and the pogrom without"); he frets about his age, his baldness and, in a major way, his parents. Down and Out In Gotham