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noun

Whine n. A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.

verb

Whine v. t. To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.

Whine v. i. (past & past part. whined; pres. part. whining) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely. "Whining plovers." "The hounds were... staying their coming, but with a whining accent, craving liberty." "Dost thou come here to whine?"

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"Whine" Quotes from Famous Books

... whine and bark, and, starting from her seat, Regina hurried toward the steps leading down from the organ-loft. Ere she reached them a fearful sound like the roaring of a vast flood broke the prophetic silence, then a blinding lurid flash seemed to wrap everything in flame; ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... But not to gloom or whine; To never overestimate Our strength, or to decline To see this is no picnic, But do our earnest part With brain and muscles, newly trained— ...

— With the Colors - Songs of the American Service • Everard Jack Appleton

... about, and was often destructive—he would gnaw the nets and skins, break the traps, and lick up the gunpowder. Then Demid punished him, whereupon Makar would turn on his heel, make foolish grimaces, and whine plaintively. ...

— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak

... not," he answered scornfully. "The moment that dun-coloured Irishman gets up, the whole government pack begins to whine and shiver. There are men I went to school with I fear more than Burke. But you don't like to see the champion of America come off second best. Is that ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... contracted; it is better, by a little well-timed excitation, to turn the course of a child's thoughts, and to make him forget his trivial miseries. "The tear forgot as soon as shed," is far better than the peevish whine, or sullen lowering brow, which proclaim the ...

— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth

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