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whin

[ win, hwin ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
  1. any thorny or prickly shrub, especially gorse.


whin

1

/ wɪn /

noun

  1. another name for gorse


whin

2

/ wɪn /

noun

  1. short for whinstone

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Word History and Origins

Origin of whin1

1375–1425; late Middle English whynne, apparently < Scandinavian; compare Icelandic hvīngras bent grass, Danish hvene, Swedish ( h ) ven

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Word History and Origins

Origin of whin1

C11: from Scandinavian; compare Old Danish hvine ( græs ), Norwegian hvine, Swedish hven

Origin of whin2

C14: quin, of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

An' this winter whin iverything's so high an' wages not raised, a woman can't find enough to cook for her man's dinner.

We always kapes a full cupboard to thrate our neighbors wid whin they comes in.

On, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.

Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin-bushes.

It always makes me feel aisier about mesilf whin I r-read how bad Julius Cayzar was.

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