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kvetch
verb
to complain, gripe, whine US, 1950
Yiddish, used by those who know only five words of the language.- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 149, 1968
- I don’t want to have to listen to him kvetch about how nobody ever does anything for anybody but themselves. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 23, 1968
- Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth? — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 105, 1969
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