different between kvetch vs vetch

English

Alternative forms

• kvitch

Etymology

From Yiddish ???????? (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /kv?t??/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -?t?

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.

Derived terms

• kvetcher (noun)

Translations

See also

• carping
• cavil
• nitpick
• split hairs

Noun

kvetch (plural kvetches)

1. A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.

   Synonyms: kvetcher, whiner

2. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

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English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• fitch

Etymology

From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

vetch (plural vetches)

1. any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds
2. any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae

Synonyms

• tare (rare)

Hyponyms

• (Vicia): garden vetch, common vetch, narrow-leaved vetch (Vicia sativa); American vetch, purple vetch, mat vetch (Vicia americana); bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia); tufted vetch (Vicia cracca); bard vetch (Vicia articulata); Bithynian vetch (Vicia bithynica); Carolina wood vetch (Vicia caroliniana); fodder vetch, hairy vetch, winter vetch (Vicia villosa); bard vetch (Vicia articulata); French vetch (Vicia serratifolia); Hungarian vetch (Vicia pannonica); Kashubian vetch (Vicia cassubica); spring vetch (Vicia lathyroides); yellow vetch (Vicia lutea); Hawaiian vetch (Vicia menziesii); pygmyflower vetch (Vicia minutiflora); single-flowered vetch (Vicia monantha); black vetch, giant vetch (Vicia nigricans); upright vetch, wood bitter-vetch (Vicia orobus); slender vetch (Vicia parviflora); pea-flowered vetch (Vicia pisiformis); bush vetch (Vicia sepium); wood vetch (Vicia sylvatica); fine-leaved vetch (Vicia tenuifolia); smooth vetch (Vicia tetrasperma)

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Further reading

• vetch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia