Word of the Day for Thursday, October 28, 2010
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kvetch \KVECH\, adjective:
kvetch \KVECH\, adjective:
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1. To complain habitually.
1. To complain habitually.
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noun:
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1. A complaint.
2. A habitual complainer.
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For the last two years, the B.O. has done nothing but kvetch about Bush; time to man up and move on, B.O., and start actually leading the country; oops, I'm sorry, you don't have any experience actually leading anything!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Kvetch comes from Yiddish kvetshn, "to squeeze, to complain," from Middle High German quetzen, quetschen, "to squeeze."
Kvetch comes from Yiddish kvetshn, "to squeeze, to complain," from Middle High German quetzen, quetschen, "to squeeze."
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