1. Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
   "My mother kvetches all day";
   - complain, kick [informal], plain [archaic], sound off, moan

1. (Yiddish) a constant complainer
   "The office kvetch found fault with every new policy"
    
2. (from Yiddish) a persistent complaint or grumble
   "His constant kvetches about the weather were getting tiresome"

Derived forms: kvetches, kvetched, kvetching

Type of: bellyacher [informal], complainer, complaint, crybaby [informal], express, give tongue to, griper, grumbler, moaner, sniveler [US], sniveller [Brit, Cdn], squawker, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize, whiner, whinger [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Kvetch