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kvitch

kvitch is the alternative spelling of kvetch.

Meaning of kvetch

Verb

kvetch (third-person singular simple present kvetches, present participle kvetching, simple past and past participle kvetched)

  1. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
    • Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

See all 3 meanings of kvetch

Forms of kvitch

Verb
third-person singular presentkvitches
present participlekvitching
past participlekvitched
pastkvitched
Noun
pluralkvitches

Questions about kvitch

What is kvitch the alternative spelling of?
Kvitch is the alternative spelling of kvetch.

Words near kvitch in the dictionary

  1. kvevri
  2. kvevris
  3. Kvinesdal
  4. Kvirikashvili
  5. Kviring
  6. kvitch
  7. kvitched
  8. kvitches
  9. kvitching
  10. kvitel
  11. kvitelach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kvitch (page history and authors); kvetch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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