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- noun A person who
kvetches ; acomplainer ,kvetch .
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Examples
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Could our laundry listing kvetcher be bitchin about how Virginia is now becoming as culturally diverse as a cosmopolitan city like DC?
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A Woody Allen-type nebbish, Lenny is a kvetcher ( "My mind was full of sickening Jewish worry, the pogrom within and the pogrom without"); he frets about his age, his baldness and, in a major way, his parents.
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Right after this thing kicks in, they're going to unveil a "frequent kvetcher" plan, where you can not only get your minutes at a discounted rate, but you can earn valuable "prizes" like leftover "Call 3-1-1" refrigerator magnets and dead "Million Trees" seedlings.
How Does the City Stop Activists? Price Them Out of Existence! 2009
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Elle, whoever you are (who are you?) you certainly are a kvetcher and a complainer.
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I ` m calling her Foxy the fetcher, and I calling my mother Mom the kvetcher.
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It once said on the kvetcher that he hates all jews.
Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool 2007
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Everybody is a wiseacre, a kvetcher, or working an angle, sometimes all three.
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But he seems amazed that people see him as a kvetcher.
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition* 1999
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As Murray Trachtenberg was preparing to exit the courtroom our Counsel Anders Bruun jocularly said, "It's far from over Murray" to which the prolific, production line, serial kvetcher Mr. Trachtenberg replied, "It does not behoove you as counsel to make threats to me as I am leaving the courtroom."
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader The Public Eye 2010
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As Murray Trachtenberg was preparing to exit the courtroom our Counsel Anders Bruun jocularly said, "It's far from over Murray" to which the prolific, production line, serial kvetcher Mr. Trachtenberg replied, "It does not behoove you as counsel to make threats to me as I am leaving the courtroom."
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader The Public Eye 2010
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