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kvetch::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
| Has types | yawp, mutter, nag, peck, protest, rail, repine, report, scold, squawk, whine, yammer, backbite, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail, bitch, bleat, crab, croak, deplore, gnarl, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, grumble, hen-peck, holler, inveigh, lament, murmur |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner, bellyacher, complainer |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | complaint |
Examples of kvetch
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You can't kvetch around here or grumpy fans will say you are fat and spoiled.
From the bostonherald.com
When Republicans are in power, Democrats hold out to kvetch about taxes and deficits.
From the theatlantic.com
When Democrats are in power, Republicans hold out to kvetch about spending and deficits.
From the theatlantic.com
But when winter arrives before fall is halfway over, feel free to kvetch.
From the timesunion.com
Berger hasn't had much time to kvetch about Cardinal's troubles or trumpet its fortitude.
From the businessweek.com
Even his elderly parents show up to kvetch and plead with their son.
From the omaha.com
It gives you the right to kvetch about all the things that aren't as you think they should be.
From the guardian.co.uk
Paul, though, gets dismissed as a constitutional kvetch.
From the dailyherald.com
Then we hop in our cars, drive to our air-conditioned houses and kvetch that gasoline prices are up a dime.
From the washingtonpost.com
- (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.
- 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)
