| 单词 | kvetch |
| 释义 | kvetch (once / 196989 pages) vn To kvetch is to grumble and complain at length. Kids who kvetch for days about never having gone to Disney World are unlikely to convince their parents to take them. When you kvetch, you whine or grumble or bellyache about something. It's an informal way to describe a very annoying activity, and you can also call the complaint itself a kvetch, as well as the person doing the complaining. In fact, this it the original Yiddish meaning, from kvetshn, "squeeze" or "press," which has a German root, quetsche, or "crusher." WORD FAMILYkvetch: kvetched, kvetches, kvetching USAGE EXAMPLESThey learn, with much kvetching, to make a stable family unit of many more parts than the usual mom-and-pop arrangement. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) “We need something to kvetch about. Forty years we walked in the desert. For what? To become the damn Yankees?” Wall Street Journal(Oct 21, 2016) Language is so fungible a medium that English has absorbed dozens of Yiddish words, like chutzpah, kvetch, kibitz, megillah, schmooze, nosh and schlock. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) 1v express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness Syn|Ant|Hypo complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off cheer, cheer up, chirk up become cheerful hen-peck, nag, peck bother persistently with trivial complaints backbite, bitchsay mean things grizzle, whine, yammer, yawpcomplain whiningly croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur, muttermake complaining remarks or noises under one's breath grouch, grumble, scoldshow one's unhappiness or critical attitude protestutter words of protest repineexpress discontent beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawkcomplain inveigh, railcomplain bitterly bemoan, bewail, deplore, lamentregret strongly reportcomplain about; make a charge against bleattalk whiningly declaim, inveighspeak against in an impassioned manner 2n (Yiddish) a constant complainer Hyper bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining 3n (Yiddish) a nagging complaint Hyper complaint an expression of grievance or resentment |
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