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complain king

complain king noun: a dissatisfied male who always grumbles or rants, and reports on others’ faults usually to someone in authority or the media, with or without ill intentions.

Noun

complain king (plural complain kings)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) A dissatisfied male who always grumbles or rants, and reports on others’ faults usually to someone in authority or the media, with or without ill intentions.
    • These days, local online portals have become complaint hotspots that aggregate the ‘word on the street’, from the mouths of Complain kings and queens themselves.2015 August 9, “Complain Kings – Icons of SG”, in SG50, retrieved 23 Oct 2017
    • Social conditioning being what it was, it wasn’t surprising that I also grew up as a complain king too.... However, we mustn’t join the complain kings…so what makes the Swiss so happy? They pay taxes, they have immigrant problems too.2015 October 7, Joan C. Guyll, “Stories SG50 Icons of Singapore #37 – Complain King (Singapore)”, in Sg Overseas Singaporean Unit, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2018

Examples of complain king in a sentence

  • hoganrock: Who's the number 1 Complain King/Queen here?2004 May 29, “'Are you a Complain King/Queen? – SgForums.com (Singapore)”, in SGFORUMS, retrieved 23 Oct 2017:
  • Are we really complain kings and queens?2000 October 5, squig...@my-deja.com, “Are we really complain kings and queens?”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet), retrieved 01 Nov 2017:

Forms of complain king

pluralcomplain kings

Questions about complain king

What does complain king mean?
Complain king means a dissatisfied male who always grumbles or rants, and reports on others’ faults usually to someone in authority or the media, with or without ill intentions.
How do you use complain king in a sentence?
hoganrock: Who's the number 1 Complain King/Queen here?
What part of speech is complain king?
Complain king is a noun.
What is the plural of complain king?
The plural of complain king is complain kings.

Words near complain king in the dictionary

  1. complacential
  2. complacentially
  3. complacently
  4. complacentry
  5. complain
  6. complain king
  7. complain kings
  8. complain queen
  9. complain queens
  10. complainable
  11. complainant

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