What is "whinge"

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.