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Whimper   /wˈɪmpər/  /hwˈɪmpər/   Listen
Whimper

noun
1.
A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way.  Synonym: whine.
verb
(past & past part. whimpered; pres. part. whimpering)
1.
Cry weakly or softly.  Synonyms: mewl, pule, wail.






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"Whimper" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the colonel's chest and the splintered rib gave him more discomfort than the wounded leader had counted on. As the train jolted at times the ex-President experienced piercing pain. But he bore it without a whimper. ...
— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey

... Colonel was an old-time Texas cattleman, and his herds had ranged from the Mexican border to the Alberta line. He had made and lost fortunes. Disease, droughts, and blizzards had cleaned him out at various times, and always he had taken his medicine without a whimper; but the loss of so much as a yearling calf by theft threw him into a rage that ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... little peach," he cried. "There ain't been a whimper out of you all day. And now we're going to have a ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood

... indeed so?" rejoined Everett, seeming to derive resolution and fortitude from the very extremity of despair. "Then the game is unquestionably lost. It was, however, boldly and skilfully played, and I am not a man to whimper over a fatal turn of the dice. In a few minutes, gentlemen," he added, "I shall have changed my dress, and be ready ...
— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren

... grass scratch his raw flesh, stopped to tie up the rag. He was far in the rear of the pack when he stopped, and the boys, not heeding his blat, rushed on and left him at the edge of a thicket near a deep-rutted road. His cry became a whimper and his whimper a sniffle as he worked with the rag; but the little fingers were clumsy, and a heel is a hard place to cover, and the sun was hot on his back; so he took the rag in one hand and his bridle in the other, and limped on his stick horse ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White


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