Kvetch Definition
kvĕch
kvetches
verb
To be urgent or insistent; press; strain.
Webster's New World
To complain in a nagging or whining way.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
noun
A chronic, whining complainer.
American Heritage
A person who kvetches.
Webster's New World
A nagging complaint.
American Heritage
Origin of Kvetch
Yiddish kvetshn to squeeze, complain from Middle High German quetzen, quetschen to squeeze
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn), cognate to German quetschen (“crush, press”).
From Wiktionary
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