'Kvetch' is a word borrowed from Yiddish 'kvetch'. The word entered the English language some time around 1952.
kvetch [verb] [circa 1952]
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Etymology: Yiddish 'kvetshn' literally, to squeeze, pinch, from Middle High German 'quetschen'
See more loan words from 1950s.
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