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QUETCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quetch mean?
• QUETCH (verb)
The verb QUETCH has 1 sense:
1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
Familiarity information: QUETCH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off
Context example:
She has a lot to kick about
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quetch"):
hen-peck; nag; peck (bother persistently with trivial complaints)
backbite; bitch (say mean things)
grizzle; whine; yammer; yawp (complain whiningly)
croak; gnarl; grumble; murmur; mutter (make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath)
grouch; grumble; scold (show one's unhappiness or critical attitude)
protest (utter words of protest)
repine (express discontent)
beef; bellyache; bitch; crab; gripe; grouse; holler; squawk (complain)
inveigh; rail (complain bitterly)
bemoan; bewail; deplore; lament (regret strongly)
report (complain about; make a charge against)
bleat (talk whiningly)
Sentence frames:
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Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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