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whimperings

whimperings is the plural of whimpering.

Meaning of whimpering

Noun

whimpering (plural whimperings)

  1. The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.
    • And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.1912, Prospero [pseudonym; Frederick Rolfe], Caliban [pseudonym; Harry Pirie-Gordon], “The Thirteenth Papyrus”, in The Weird of the Wanderer: Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the...

Questions about whimperings

What is whimperings the plural of?
Whimperings is the plural of whimpering.

Words near whimperings in the dictionary

  1. whimpered
  2. whimperer
  3. whimperers
  4. whimpering
  5. whimperingly
  6. whimperings
  7. whimpers
  8. whimpery
  9. whimple
  10. whimpled
  11. whimples

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