Meanings
nounwhingery (uncountable)
- UKinformalrareuncountableWhingeing; peevish complaining.
The consensus on this one is you should ignore whingeing tones […] You'll have to follow up by really listening to the non-whingery.
2009, Kaz Cooke, The Rough Guide to Babies & Toddlers, page 3431 more example
More to the point, such protests were not just NIMBY whingery for they were, on the whole, aimed at stopping dead one or more of the Ringway schemes.
2010, C. Bloom, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, page 463
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