meckern

== German == === Etymology === Iterative of mecken, of imitative origin; compare Latin micciō (“to bleat”), Sanskrit मेक (meka, “goat”), Ancient Greek μηκάς (mēkás, “goat”). === Pronunciation === === Verb === meckern (weak, third-person singular present meckert, past tense meckerte, past participle gemeckert, auxiliary haben) (intransitive) to bleat (of goats) to grouse, to complain, to bitch (to criticize a situation openly and pettily) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Gemecker ==== See also ==== jammern plärren maulen === Further reading === “meckern”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “meckern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “meckern” in Duden online “meckern” in OpenThesaurus.de