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单词 repiner
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repinern.

Brit. /rᵻˈpʌɪnə/, U.S. /rəˈpaɪnər/, /riˈpaɪnər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: repine v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < repine v.+ -er suffix1.
Now literary and somewhat archaic.
A person who is discontented; a grumbler, a complainer; (later also) a person who longs discontentedly for something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains
grucchildc1230
grutchera1250
groinera1382
musera1382
plainerc1400
plaintiff?a1439
fretter?1504
complainant1525
complainer1526
repiner1551
grudger1552
moaner1628
grumbler1633
querulist1647
maunderer1653
growler1753
grumbletonian1773
smellfungus1807
crib-biter1809
expostulatora1834
squinny1849
groaner1876
grouser1885
squealer1889
gruntler1893
grump1900
grouch1901
screamer1902
Moaning Minnie1934
narker1937
binder1944
1551 R. Ascham Let. 23 Feb. in Wks. (1865) (modernized text) I. ii. 279 He is likely..to make..the Germans, of secret repiners, open foes.
1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. iv. 91 To occasion these repiners feele the smart of their counsell.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 91 He is a scoffer, derider and repiner.
1698 E. Settle Farther Def. Dramatick Poetry 12 I fancy this strait-lac'd high Moralist Mr. Collier, is the only Repiner at Young Fashion's Felicity in the Arms of Miss Hoyden.
1750 Berkeley Max. conc. Patriotism §23 We are not to think..every splenetick repiner against a court is therefore a patriot.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 96 Heav'n..show'rs with fury dread, Tormenting Ills on the Repiner's head.
1843 Southern Lit. Messenger Mar. 190/2 The female repiners are novel-readers too; who sigh because they are not distressed damsels, lost in some thousand-miles of forest.
1897 E. W. Wilcox Three Women xi. 184 Let us teach earth's repiners to look through glad eyes.
1925 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. P. M. F. Janet Psychol. Healing I. ii. 88 It is not a religion for weaklings and repiners.
2002 West Virginia University Philol. Papers (Nexis) Sept. 92 What the repiners are truly nostalgic for, it seems, is the traditional style of oral narrative performance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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