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▪ I. whining, vbl. n.|ˈhwaɪnɪŋ|
[f. whine v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb whine; the uttering of a low somewhat shrill cry or sound, or of a complaint in a low querulous tone.
c1440Promp. Parv. 524/2 Whynynge, ululatus. 1508Dunbar Test. A. Kennedy 65 My fenȝeing, and my fals wynyng, Relinquo falsis fratribus. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 14 A bodye..maketh a great whynyng, if he haue had any losse. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 25 One whom I will beate into clamor[ou]s whining. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 138 The louder and shriller voice of a Dogge, is called barking, the lower and stiller, is called whining, or fawning. 1618Fletcher Loyal Subj. i. iii, Here will be trim piping anon and whining, Like so many Pigs in a storm. 1626Donne Serm., John xi. 21 (1640) 820 For the ratling of a Coach, for the whining of a doore. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xiii. 107 The..wheening of Whelps. 1765Goldsm. Ess., Eng. Clergy, I am not for whining at the depravity of the times. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlii. (1856) 386 A whining as of young puppies. 1859Jephson Brittany vii. 86 The unmanly whining of disappointed vanity or morbid sentiment. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 908 The voice is enfeebled to whinings and fretful pulings.
b. attrib. whining cross = weeping cross.
1602Breton Wonders worth Hearing Wks. (Grosart) II. 12/1 These yong men..will..leaue vs to make our prayers at whining crosse.
▪ II. ˈwhining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That whines; characterized by whining. (lit. and fig.)
In some technical uses (quots. 1625, 1679) = weeping ppl. a.
15..M. Cosowarth in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 406 This did my whyninge life endure awhile. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. x. (1912) 60 The houndes..with a whining Accent craving libertie. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 145 The whining Schoole-boy with his Satchell. 1625Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 9 Winter-springs, or teares of water (for, which some call such, A whining or weeping ground). 1660Nicholas Papers (Camden) IV. 254 A whining puritanicall tubb preacher. 1678Otway Friendship in F. ii. i, To have us two such whining crop-sick Lovers. 1679Evelyn Sylva xx. (ed. 3) 87 Whyning, or shrivell'd-Gelster. 1711Steele Spect. No. 142 ⁋2 A Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. v, The whining end of a modern novel. 1841Borrow Zincali I. ii. iv. 278 The whining, canting tones peculiar to the Gypsies. 1888Times 2 Oct. 9/1 The English masses..cannot be got to take much interest in a whining poltroon. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. v, The whining wheel.
Hence ˈwhiningly adv.
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 21 [They] talk whiningly. 1689T. Plunket Char. Gd. Comm. Prol., Making those swearers (whiningly) to yield. 1814Byron Let. to Moore 3 Aug., I have seriously and not whiningly neither hopes, nor prospects. 1888Gunter Mr. Potter xx, The dog becomes so fearfully restless and whiningly uneasy. |