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kvetch [kvɛtʃ] vb
(intr) Slang chiefly US to complain or grumble, esp incessantly [from Yiddish kvetshn, literally: to squeeze, press] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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As singers Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson, Meryl Streep and Lilly Tomlin have learned the idiom of country singing and use the music to extend and even exalt their characterizations: Streep demonstrates that a woozy airhead like Yolanda can attain ecstasy in her art, while Tomlin's Rhonda is a depressive whose irritating kvetching gets distilled into a kind of noble melancholy. And Allen is just plain annoying, his comic kvetching a pale imitation of past triumphs. The opening segment visits the small town of Middlefield, Ohio, where small-business owners are kvetching about the looming opening of a new Wal-Mart superstore. |
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