From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri May 23 1997 - 22:59:47 EDT
At 07:19 PM 5/23/97 -0700, Gregory and Carol Yeager wrote:
>I'm not really sure what a kvetsch is, but ...
A kvetsch is someone who is always griping and finding fault, seeing pain
and human suffering, missing out on all forms of humor, being easily
offended. It is a Yiddish term, and I bet Leo Rosten would have a good
article on it in "The Joys of Yiddish".
I once saw a bumper sticker that said "Marcel Proust is a kvetsch!" Of
course, the False Memory Syndrome people have recently determined that
Proust had chocolate chip cookies when he was a child, not madeleines...
Jonathan
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