Word of the Day

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Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 27, 2007
kvetch \KVECH\, adjective:
1. To complain habitually.
2. A complaint.
3. A habitual complainer.
People kvetched when someone else wouldn't relinquish his position.
-- Barry Lopez, "Before the Temple of Fire.", Harper's Magazine, January 1998 <http://www.harpers.org/>
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", The New Republic, January 26,
1998
<http://www.thenewrepublic.com/>
Time for my biennial kvetch about the West End theatre.
-- Simon Hoggart, "Hose bans, petrol mania: saying 'don't panic'
always triggers chaos", The Guardian, November 4, 2000 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian>
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", The Atlantic, December 2001 <http://www.theatlantic.com/>
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", The Atlantic, September 2000 <http://www.theatlantic.com/>