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say it: kvech
kvetch is a noun and verb meaning "(Yiddish) a constant complainer". It carries 3 recorded senses.
express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
“My mother complains all day”
“She has a lot to kick about”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kvetch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.