Pronunciations
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/(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/
Verb
To whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- UK usage
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Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do.
I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.
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"'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?"
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.
Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often
His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good.
“I try to write something that is amusing,” says [Kate] Spicer. “So much of the stuff written about sex is just whingeing, the I'm-not-getting-enough-orgasms kind of thing. It makes women sound as though they can't have fun in bed.”
"I'm miserable," Sam proclaimed, plodding behind with his shoelace flapping. "Nobody ever gives me butter-pies when I need them." / "Shut up," said Jonathan. "Stop wingeing."
"You know the problem these days with young people? Get them to carry a 500-pound bomb and within 30 seconds they're making noises," he says, imitating a whingeing sound.
You feel bad about whingeing about your own lack of activation on an emotional, psychosexual level because the whole world is telling you: you’ve gotta just survive this horror.
Noun
A cry.
Usage- Australia
- Ireland
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
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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.”
A peevish complaint.
Usage- Australia
- Ireland
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
- Examples
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I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!