Meaning & use
Kvetch
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to complain persistently or habitually, often about minor matters
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He spent the whole car ride kvetching about the traffic.
My grandmother loves to kvetch about the weather every winter.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Yiddish 'kvetshn,' literally meaning 'to squeeze' or 'press,' and now common in informal American English.
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