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Grouse or carp, with joint that's beef
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whinge
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Word definitions for whinge in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to complain peevishly," British, informal or dialectal, ultimately from the northern form of Old English hwinsian , from Proto-Germanic *hwinison (cognates: Old High German winison , German winseln ), from root of Old English hwinan "to whine" (see whine ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK AU NZ Irish English) A cry. 2 (context UK AU NZ Irish English) A complaint. vb. 1 (context UK AU NZ Irish English) To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. 2 (context UK AU NZ Irish English) To whine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whinge \Whinge\, v. i. To whine. [Scot.] --Burns.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He's always whinging about being underpaid. ▪ Nick was a pain in the neck. He did nothing but whinge the whole trip. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Are girls encouraged to whinge and cry instead of getting angry? ▪ He thought ...
Usage examples of whinge.
He whinged and whimpered, would get himself to the wall and have to be dissuaded from beating his head against it, so great was his torment.
Her stupid, chaotic mind went on spinning out of control, imagining things, suspecting things, regretting and whingeing about things when she had thought she was better.
Grimes took the rocket mail from Newer York to New Melbourne, and during the trip Grimes indulged in one of his favourite whinges, about the inability of the average colonist to come up with really original names for his cities.
She loved Peggy as she had never loved her own daughter, because Victoria had been a sickly specimen since birth, a whinging kind of child and then a more whinging woman.
And his reward was to be stuck in Little Whinging for four solid weeks, completely cut off from the magical world, reduced to squatting among dying begonias so that he could hear about water-skiing budgerigars!
Some pesky Suffragists brought in their pet female doctor and commenced whinging about the entire painting room, especially about the paints and glazes, saying we're poisoning the girls and that's why they disappear.
In Dalgleish's opinion, it was precisely this sort of pandering and indulgence that was responsible for the party's poor showings north of the border - if you let a child have its way every time it whinges or whines about something, you end up with an indisciplined brat, don't you?
His view - expressed several times - was that she should get a job, preferably a tough, underpaid, physically demanding job, stop whingeing, stop crying on Jen's shoulder, stop enriching trick cyclists and while she was about it lose two stone and get a stud to sort her out downstairs.