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Etymology

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

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Noun

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kvetcher (plural kvetchers)

  1. A person who kvetches; a complainer, kvetch.
    • 2017, Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man:
      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.