to kvetch
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9.9
- verb
- /kˈvɛtʃ/
- Informal
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- It's exhausting to listen to him kvetch about every little inconvenience.
Examples
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One more thing: Germany and China, quit kvetching about the dollar.
Academic text (2011) -
Everyone I know flails around, kvetching and growing despondent, on the way to finding a plot and structure that work.
Academic text (1998) -
Rather than just kvetch about the media, they decided to try to become the media.
Blog text (14) -
I don't wanna have to listen to him kvetch about how "Nobody ever does anything for anybody but themselves."
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We all need to keep that in mind before opening our mouths to kvetch too often.
Blog text (19) -
When he learned that he had cancer of the esophagus, he refused to kvetch and said, "It's no big deal."
Blog text (19) -
And not by kvetching, but by taking a reality pill and a look around.
Blog text (13) -
If I can't kvetch, I can't do my job.
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I work in Washington Heights, and I get so tired of people kvetching about gentrification.
Blog text (24) -
And they will be kvetching about the results and telling you it confirms their sectarian beliefs.
Blog text (26)
Synonyms
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1.0
To say you are unhappy about something and want it changed
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8.1
To complain a lot in an annoying way
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2.8
To complain in a high, annoying voice
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3.7
To complain quietly in a low voice
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5.6
To complain repeatedly about small things
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6.6
To keep complaining about something in a way that annoys people
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6.7
Talk again and again about the same thing and annoy people
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7.0
To say your opinion or complain loudly and openly
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9.6
To complain a lot in an annoying way
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7.4
To complain about small unimportant things
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4.1
To complain quietly about something you do not like
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8.1
To complain in an annoying way about small things
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9.9
To complain a lot about small things and annoy others
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4.9
To complain when you are in a bad mood
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6.8
To complain a lot in an annoying way
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6.4
To complain in a bad-tempered way
To complain about small, unimportant things
Antonyms
How Complaining
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kvetch comes from Yiddish and originally meant 'to squeeze' or 'press'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone 'squeezing' complaints out of their mouth, so to kvetch is to complain again and again about small things.