Definition:
: to complain often or constantly
About the Word:
If you look up kvetch in a Merriam-Webster dictionary online (either the Collegiate at m-w.com or the Unabridged at unabridged.merriam-webster.com) you will see, below the definition, a long and splendid list of synonyms. Our language has more than three dozen very similar ways of describing the act of complaining about something. Most of these have been in English for far longer than kvetch (which dates to around 1952 and comes from kvetshn, meaning to squeeze or pinch), so why do we need another? The fact that it begins with a kv is reason enough to want to add it to our language, but in addition to that there is no such thing as too many words for complaining.
Example:
"But even then she kvetched so much (he could still hear her; vampires have very good hearing), he finally gave up and shipped the two of them home." — Darrell Schweitzer & Martin Harry Greenberg, Full Moon City, 2010
