whinge
/(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""'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."
Etymology
From a northern variant of Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinisōn (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”).
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱwey-, hwinsian, *hwinisōn, *hwīnan
Usage
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