whimpery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"People have gotten more courage and realized that all that they have to do is to speak up with sincerity and authority and self-confidence, then other people have confidence in them. Whereas, if they speak up with a big wounded whimpery voice, people will think they're freaks and queers."
"a whimpery noise"
"a whimpery child"

From whimper + -y.

more whimpery (comparative) most whimpery (superlative)

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