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Kvetch

2 stages from Yiddish to English.

Today it means to complain persistently, or a person who complains habitually
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Stage 1 of 2
kvetshn
Yiddish · 1800s
"to squeeze, to complain"
literally to squeeze or press, extended to mean to complain
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Stage 2 of 2
kvetch
English · 1950s
"to complain persistently"
adopted through American Yiddish-speaking Jewish communities
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