whinge

present singular third person whinges · participle present whingeing · participle present whinging · participle past whinged · past whinged · alternative winge · alternative quhynge

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKTo whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.

   I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.

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   Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do.

   "'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye whingeing Whig carles? D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yer cracks?"

   1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC

   You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

   Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often

   1992, Sky Phillips, Secret mission to Melbourne, November, 1941, page 45

   His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good.

   1993, Michael Fisher, The Nightmare Man, page 169

plural whinges · alternative winge · alternative quhynge

1. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKA cry.

   Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.

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   “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and the yowl, was never out of his mouth.”

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522

2. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKA peevish complaint.

   I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!