kvetch
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Verb
kvetches, plural;
/k(ə)veCH/,/kfeCH/,
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kvetches, plural;
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Complain
Noun
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A person who complains a great deal
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A complaint
Web Definitions:
- (Yiddish) a constant complainer
- complain: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
- Person who endlessly whines or complains; Person who finds fault with anything; To whine or complain, often needlessly; Describing a kvetch or kvetcher
- Complain: My mother kvetches about my cooking.
- verb — to complain Example: "I can hear myself kvetching, and I just can't stop it; I know it drives my husband mishugge, but if he'd just stop throwing his dirty laundry on the floor, I wouldn't have to bend over, and he knows I have arthritis so it's not like what I'm asking is unreasonable!"
- Creatures covered from head to foot in hair who fled their native Mouldavia for Ankh-Morpork after a war broke out. Sam Vimes snidely remarks that Vetinari will demand some are allowed on the Watch before too long.
- (Yid.) whine(r), complain(er)
- (kvetch) v., To complain, especially in an annoying or nagging way. “Why do you kvetch and kvetch?” Also, noun, A complainer, whiner. “She is such a kvetch.” [Etym., Yiddish]