whinge
/(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/
whinge verb: to whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
Verb
whinge (third-person singular simple present whinges, present participle whingeing or whinging, simple past and past participle whinged)
- To whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
- Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do.
- I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.
Noun
whinge (plural whinges)
- A cry.
- Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.
- “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522
- A peevish complaint.
- I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!
whinge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
whinge in Hindi
- to complain or protest
- कराहना karāhnā
whinge in Tamil
- சிணுங்கு
whinge in Urdu
- فریاد کرنا, کراہنا, سسک سسک کر رونا
whinge in Malayalam
- whine, grouse, complain
- ചിണുങ്ങുക, പരാതിപ്പെടുക, ആവലാതിപ്പെടുക, പിറുപിറുക്കുക, അസ്പഷ്ടമായി പറയുക, പൊറുപൊറുക്കുക
- whine, mewl, whimper
- ചിണുക്കം, മോങ്ങൽ, തേങ്ങൽ, ചിണുങ്ങൽ, കരച്ചിൽ, വിങ്ങിക്കരച്ചിൽ
Examples of whinge in a sentence
- "'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye whingeing Whig carles?1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co....
- You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- “So much of the stuff written about sex is just whingeing, the I'm-not-getting-enough-orgasms kind of thing.1995 October 1, Nick Walker, quoting Kate Spicer, “Women and Men: All mouth and no trousers”, in The Independent:
- Get them to carry a 500-pound bomb and within 30 seconds they're making noises," he says, imitating a whingeing sound.2012 December 1, John Lyons, “Action stations as sea giants stay vigilant on the frontline”, in The Australian:
Forms of whinge
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | whinges |
| present participle | whingeing |
| present participle | whinging |
| past participle | whinged |
| past | whinged |
| alternative form | winge |
| alternative form | quhynge |
| Noun | |
| plural | whinges |
Origin of whinge
From a northern variant of Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinisōn (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”).
Words that rhyme with whinge
Questions about whinge
- What does whinge mean?
- Whinge means to whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
- What is whinge in Hindi?
- Whinge in Hindi is कराहना (karāhnā). See Whinge meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use whinge in a sentence?
- "'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye whingeing Whig carles?
- What part of speech is whinge?
- Whinge can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce whinge?
- Whinge is pronounced /(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/.
- What is the past tense of whinge?
- The past tense of whinge is whinged.
Words near whinge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whinge (page history and authors); whinge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whinge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whinge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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