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Definition of kvetch in English: kvetchnoun kvɛtʃ North American informal 1A person who complains a great deal. she emerges as something of a kvetch, constantly nagging Rick Example sentencesExamples - Sure enough, at the end of his workday he is a kvetch who goads a black youngster into reaching for a gun and shoots him dead.
- And I don't want to seem like a kvetch, but where's the dessert?
- I was a real kvetch, and I wanted to be involved every step of the way.
- Zoole, a hopeless kvetch, has good reason to complain.
Synonyms shrew, curmudgeon, discontent, complainer, grumbler, moaner, fault-finder, carper - 1.1 A complaint.
‘They don't make 'em like they used to’ has become an all-purpose kvetch Example sentencesExamples - I have a kvetch about my meal being cooked in the body fat of a dead animal.
- In Trading Hearts the veil of intimacy is lifted and the audience invited into the heart of a relationship to share the moments - the thoughts, the kvetches, and the fleeting heartbeats of bliss, the fights and the sex.
- My one kvetch was that not enough music was played from the Train A Comin’ album.
- Without the historical fantasy, what's left is one long, pretentious kvetch, larded with hokum about forgiveness and redemption, that some men are geniuses and others are not.
- To make the guest list, invitees would have to possess the ability to grumble, rant, complain, gripe, fuss, snarl, groan, scream and kvetch - preferably all at the same time.
Synonyms complaint, grumble, moan, groan, grievance, objection, protest, whine
verbkvɛtʃ [no object]North American informal Complain persistently. Jane's kvetching about her crummy existence Example sentencesExamples - Thus every day, on my blog, these strangers show up, just to shoot the breeze, flirt, kvetch, veer off topic and, most of all, pay zero attention to what I have written.
- I call it a good excuse for geeky types to get together and kvetch.
- I stand to the side, watching, listening to him kvetch about my lack of proper kitchen equipment.
- 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.
- Coincidentally, he'd been kvetching to me about the lack of masquerade balls, just before I found out that there was going to be one.
Synonyms grumble, complain, moan, groan, protest, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss
Origin 1960s: from Yiddish kvetsh (noun), kvetshn (verb), from Middle High German quetschen, literally 'crush'. Rhymes etch, fetch, ketch, lech, outstretch, retch, sketch, stretch, vetch, wretch Definition of kvetch in US English: kvetchnoun North American informal 1A person who complains a great deal. she emerges as something of a kvetch, constantly nagging Rick Example sentencesExamples - And I don't want to seem like a kvetch, but where's the dessert?
- I was a real kvetch, and I wanted to be involved every step of the way.
- Zoole, a hopeless kvetch, has good reason to complain.
- Sure enough, at the end of his workday he is a kvetch who goads a black youngster into reaching for a gun and shoots him dead.
Synonyms shrew, curmudgeon, discontent, complainer, grumbler, moaner, fault-finder, carper - 1.1 A complaint.
“They don't make 'em like they used to” has become an all-purpose kvetch Example sentencesExamples - Without the historical fantasy, what's left is one long, pretentious kvetch, larded with hokum about forgiveness and redemption, that some men are geniuses and others are not.
- My one kvetch was that not enough music was played from the Train A Comin’ album.
- In Trading Hearts the veil of intimacy is lifted and the audience invited into the heart of a relationship to share the moments - the thoughts, the kvetches, and the fleeting heartbeats of bliss, the fights and the sex.
- I have a kvetch about my meal being cooked in the body fat of a dead animal.
- To make the guest list, invitees would have to possess the ability to grumble, rant, complain, gripe, fuss, snarl, groan, scream and kvetch - preferably all at the same time.
Synonyms complaint, grumble, moan, groan, grievance, objection, protest, whine
verb [no object]North American informal Complain. Jane's kvetching about her crummy existence Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Coincidentally, he'd been kvetching to me about the lack of masquerade balls, just before I found out that there was going to be one.
- I stand to the side, watching, listening to him kvetch about my lack of proper kitchen equipment.
- Thus every day, on my blog, these strangers show up, just to shoot the breeze, flirt, kvetch, veer off topic and, most of all, pay zero attention to what I have written.
- I call it a good excuse for geeky types to get together and kvetch.
Synonyms grumble, complain, moan, groan, protest, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss
Origin 1960s: from Yiddish kvetsh (noun), kvetshn (verb), from Middle High German quetschen, literally ‘crush’. |