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▪ I. whinge, n. orig. Sc. and dial.|hwɪndʒ|
[f. next.]
A whine, esp. a peevish complaint.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxii. 10 He [sc. a fox]..schuk his taill, with quhinge and ȝelp. 1825Croker Fairy Leg. Irel. i. 48 The whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and the yowl. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 170 With cur-like whinge to such soft cutting whip. 1938S. Beckett Murphy iii. 37 He threw his voice into an infant's whinge. ‘I cudden do anything, Maaaammy.’ 1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxviii. 254 The bull [whale] complained with a stupid little grumbling whinge and edged a few yards farther away. 1963[see peanut 2 b]. 1973P. White Eye of Storm i. 64 ‘You're so unfair!’ A whinge developed through a moan into a downright blub. 1981Listener 4 June 749/1 This is not just an envious whinge. 1982J. Thomson To make a Killing xiii. 231, I knew bloody well he'd shop me and make a fuss... He'd already had a whinge about the rubbish I'd left. 1985Times 10 Jan. 10/6 In my one-but-last whinge I was going on about the burdensome duties of The Talk.
▪ II. whinge, v. orig. Sc. and north. dial.|hwɪndʒ|
Forms: 6 quhinge, quhynge, 9 winge, wheenge, 8 whindge, 7– whinge, 20 winge.
[North. form of OE. hwinsian, corresp. to OHG. win(i)sôn (MHG. winsen; cf. MHG., G. winseln):—OTeut. *χwinisōjan, f. root of hwínan to whine. For the suffix cf. OE. clǽnsian to cleanse, bletsian to bless, rícsian to rule, ON. hreinsa to cleanse; for the phonology of the form whinge cf. clenge, ringe, north. forms of cleanse, rinse.]
intr. To whine; esp. to complain peevishly. Hence ˈwhinging (also w(h)ingeing) vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1150MS. C.C.C. Camb. 303 125/7 Mid hwinsunge & mid dreoriᵹum mode hio [sc. the dogs] cerdon ealle onᵹean to þan hunten. Ibid. 126/14 Þa hundes ne ᵹeswicon to hwinsianne mid ceariendre stæmne. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. iii. 28 The remanent of that questing sort,..about the master hunteir With quhyngeand mouthis quaikand standis for feir. Ibid. 32 Thai hald thar mowthis still, Thar quhingeing and thar questing at his will Refrenis. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tractates Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 8 Dum doggis, quha..dar nother quhryne nor quhynge. 1720C'tess Cowper Diary (1864) 152 The second Time she said, whingeing [etc.]. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, Daft Gowk! leave off that silly whindging Way. 1727P. Walker Life Semple etc. (1827) 316 You will die honourably before many Witnesses,..and I will die whinging upon a Pickle Straw. 1728Ramsay Last Sp. Miser xviii, The mair they whing'd, it gart me hug My swelling Purses. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1792) I. v. 159 A little beggar boy,..whinging and shivering with cold. 1790Burns Elegy Capt. M— H— Epit. viii, Ony whiggish whingin' sot. a1837R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 17, I needna greet, What gude on earth wad whingeing do? 1867P. Fitzgerald Seventy-five Brooke St. i. xxi, This mean, whinging fellow. 1907J. M. Synge Let. 31 Mar. (1971) 121 Forgive this contemptible sort of whinging. I am so lonely and miserable I cant help it. 1922Joyce Ulysses 10 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. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xvii. 272 She had lifted up her brief skirt..to exhibit her sand-fly bites... ‘You don't want to whinge about them... You had a good time, didn't you?’ 1955S. Beckett Molloy ii. 172, I forgot that my son would be at my side,..whinging for food. 1965Listener 2 Sept. 339/2 There is a stinging phrase in use, ‘wingeing Poms’ (translate into ‘complaining English’). 1969Advertiser (Adelaide) 12 May 5/4 Stop whingeing and give a bloke a go, mates. 1973B. Bainbridge Dressmaker 8 If that girl didn't stop her wingeing, the neighbours would be banging on the wall. 1983Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 236/1 In 1849, Arnold whinged to Clough that the age was ‘..unpoetical’. 1983Sunday Times 31 July 33/1 ‘What sort of people do Australians hate most?’ ‘The whingeing Pom... Poms that come over and do nothing but whinge.’ 1984Times 20 Jan. 10/7 This is not the month for whingeing criticisms. 1984Sunday Times 9 Dec. 7/1 All must drill most Tuesday nights..and not whinge when the trousers of their best suits are crumpled and smutted under the uniform. |