kvetcher

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noun

A person who kvetches; a complainer, kvetch.

OriginYiddish קוועטשער →
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Meanings

nounkvetcher (plural kvetchers)

plural kvetchers

  1. A person who kvetches; a complainer, kvetch.

    My Herb, may he rest in peace, worked his fingers to the bone and never complained a day in his life. We knew what hardship was, our generation... We weren’t kvetchers.

    2017, Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
complainercrabberfaultfindergrouchgrumblergrumpkvetchsmellfungustroublemaker

Origin

  1. Yiddishקוועטשער
  2. Englishkvetcher

From kvetch + -er, or borrowed from Yiddish קוועטשער (kvetsher).

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APA

kvetcher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kvetcher

MLA

“kvetcher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kvetcher. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kvetcher,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kvetcher.

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