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Make your mind into a weapon of mass discovery. Supersize your mental fries. Experience the brain-building power of daily KnowledgeNews emails now! http://knowledgenews.net/s?s=lx020505 \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/ Word of the Day for Saturday February 5, 2005 kvetch \KVECH\, intransitive verb: To complain habitually. noun: 1. A complaint. 2. A habitual complainer. People kvetched when someone else wouldn't relinquish his position. --Barry Lopez, "Before the Temple of Fire." [1]Harper's Magazine, January 1998 They begin to look like malcontents who kvetch about the weather so much that they don't notice the sun coming out. --David Shenk, "Slamming Gates," [2]The New Republic, January 26, 1998 Time for my biennial kvetch about the West End theatre. --Simon Hoggart, "Hose bans, petrol mania: saying 'don't panic' always triggers chaos," [3]The Guardian, November 4, 2000 "He's just a very up person," she says, which is odd, because he is also a big complainer, a class-A kvetch. --Penny Wolfson, "Moonrise," [4]The Atlantic, December 2001 He had difficulty getting American publishers for his later novels, partly because of his self-created image by then as a crusty old kvetch. --Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "What Kingsley Can Teach Martin," [5]The Atlantic, September 2000 _________________________________________________________ Kvetch comes from Yiddish kvetshn, "to squeeze, to complain," from Middle High German quetzen, quetschen, "to squeeze." References 1. http://www.harpers.org/ 2. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/ 3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian 4. http://www.theatlantic.com/ 5. http://www.theatlantic.com/ Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=kvetch Note: Audio pronunciation available only to Premium members. To learn more about the benefits of Premium membership, visit our site: http://dictionary.reference.com/premium/?r=9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CleverKeys, noun: Free software providing instant access to Dictionary.com from any program. See: http://tinyurl.com/3538s _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: [email protected] To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
