The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CRAB , but the solution may also be WHINE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Kvetch crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CRAB | 14 % | 4 |
| NAG | 10 % | 3 |
| WHINE | 10 % | 5 |
| CARP | 10 % | 4 |
| MOAN | 9 % | 4 |
| GRIPE | 9 % | 5 |
| YAMMER | 8 % | 6 |
| GROUSE | 6 % | 6 |
| MOANER | 6 % | 6 |
| WHINER | 5 % | 6 |
| REPINE | 4 % | 6 |
| COMPLAIN | 3 % | 8 |
| PULER | 1 % | 5 |
| PILL | 1 % | 4 |
| BELLYACHE | 1 % | 9 |
| YAMMERER | 1 % | 8 |
| CAVIL | 1 % | 5 |
Why may CARP be the right solution?
"Kvetch" is a Yiddish term meaning "to complain", and "carp" is a synonym for "complain". Therefore, "carp" is the right answer to the clue "Kvetch".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Kvetch
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- complain
- kick
- sound off
- plain
- quetch
- nag
- whingle
- whinge
- weep
- grutch
- croak
- rant
Crossword Answer definitions
CRAB noun- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
- A bad-tempered person.
- (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
- To fish for crabs.
- To ruin.
- To complain.
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
- To back out of something.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- Short for carabiner.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CRAB
- Blue, stone or fiddler
- Complain, needlessly
- Grumpy person
- Bellyache
- Fiddler, for one
- Grouch
- Grump
- Grumpy one
- Curmudgeon
- Tasty cake?
More clues leading to the result NAG
- Harp
- Worthless horse
- Fuss at
- Get on someone's case
- Harry
- Henpeck
- Old horse or ex-wife
- Pester
- Remind and remind and remind
- Annoy
More clues leading to the result WHINE
- Bellyache
- Sound resembling a cry
- Carp
- Be a complainer
- Moan and groan
- Pule
- Keep going "Why me?"
- Kvetch
- Complain plaintively
- Peevish complaint
More clues leading to the result CARP
- Find fault in a disagreeable way
- Freshwater catch
- Pond fish
- Bottom feeder
- Food fish
- Freshwater fish
- Find fault
- Complain
- Complain, like a fish?
- Beef
More clues leading to the result MOAN
- Keen
- Lament
- Painful utterance
- Sorrowful cry
- Haunted house noise
- Haunted-house sound
- Haunted house sound
- Busy sound?
- Complaining sound
- Gripe
More clues leading to the result GRIPE
- Bellyache
- Beef
- Complain
- Have beefs
- Complain ceaselessly
- Carp
- Be a complainer
- Bone to pick
- Act curmudgeonly
- Kvetch
More clues leading to the result YAMMER
- Talk too much
- Gripe nonstop
- Complain nonstop
- Have a gabfest
- Talk incessantly
- Be a whiner
- Whine
- Kvetch
- Complain loudly
- Whine loudly
More clues leading to the result GROUSE
- Complain
- Crab
- Black ruffed bird
- Vancouver's ___ Mountain (ski area)
- Vancouver's ___ Mountain
- Register one's dissatisfaction
- Bellyache
- Fuss and fret
- Kvetch
- "Ruffed" bird
More clues leading to the result MOANER
- Malcontent
- Bellyacher
- Complainer
- Punster's prey, perhaps
- Crybaby
- One in pain
- Kvetch
- Complainer.
- Bewailer.
- Pessimist
More clues leading to the result WHINER
- Beef provider?
- Kvetch
- Constant complainer
- Crybaby
- Hard-to-take complainer
- Complainer
- Puling person
- Complaining sort
- Unmanly complainer.
- Spoiled child, perhaps
More clues leading to the result REPINE
More clues leading to the result COMPLAIN
More clues leading to the result PULER
- One whining
- Whiny one
- Kvetch
- Querulous weakling.
- Whining child.
- Whiner.
- Complainer.
- Fretful one.
- Querulous weakling
- Whining one
More clues leading to the result PILL
- Pain
- Pharmacy staple
- Medicant
- Tablet
- Vitamin unit
- Pain?
- One may be bitter
- Annoying one
- Wet blanket
- Ill-humored sort
More clues leading to the result BELLYACHE
- Gripe
- Whine
- Complain in a whiny manner
- Complain
- Kvetch
- Whine and complain
- Complain whiningly: Slang.
- Grumble: Slang
- Crab
- Grouse