whinge
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verb (used without object), whinged, whing·ing. British and Australian Informal.
to complain; whine.
Origin:
before 1150; dial. (Scots, N England), earlier Scots quhynge, Old English hwinsian (not recorded in ME); cognate with Old High German winsōn (German winseln); derivative of Germanic base of whine
before 1150; dial. (Scots, N England), earlier Scots quhynge, Old English hwinsian (not recorded in ME); cognate with Old High German winsōn (German winseln); derivative of Germanic base of whine
Related forms
whing·er, noun
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| —vb , whinges, whingeing, whinged | |
| 1. | to cry in a fretful way |
| 2. | to complain |
| —n | |
| 3. | a complaint |
| [from a Northern variant of Old English hwinsian to whine; related to Old High German winsan, winisan, whence Middle High German winsen] | |
| 'whingeing | |
| —n, —adj | |
| 'whinger | |
| —n | |
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Whinge
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example sentences
They whinge on about not being able to do their job cos of paperwork.
People that whinge hardly ever benefit any good cause.
They didn't live up to all the high expectations, didn't make spaceflight as routine as catching a bus, the critics will whinge.
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