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whinger

/ˈʍɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

whinger noun: one who whinges.

Noun (1)

whinger (plural whingers)

  1. One who whinges.
    • The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers...2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021
    • I have negative blitz spirit. I’m not a keep-calm-and-carry-on-er – I’m a moaner, a complainer, a whinger. I’m also a cynic and a misanthrope; I hate crowds, big events, joining in, enforced fun.2026 June 28, Polly Hudson, “I was a whinger, a cynic, a misanthrope. Then I saw Harry Styles live – and I will never be the same again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Noun (2)

whinger (plural whingers)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A whinyard.
    • “Fye on you, why do you not strike your whingers into me, or blow me up with a barrel of powder, rather than torture me thus unmercifully?”1820, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, Note to Chapter 22

whinger meaning in Tamil

whinger in Tamil

சூரிக்கத்தி

Forms of whinger

pluralwhingers

Origin of whinger

From whinge + -er.

Perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”).

Words that rhyme with whinger

Questions about whinger

What does whinger mean?
Whinger means one who whinges.
What is whinger in Tamil?
Whinger in Tamil is சூரிக்கத்தி. See Whinger meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whinger?
Whinger is a noun.
How do you pronounce whinger?
Whinger is pronounced /ˈʍɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of whinger?
The plural of whinger is whingers.

Words near whinger in the dictionary

  1. whingebags
  2. whinged
  3. whingeing
  4. whingeingly
  5. whingeings
  6. whinger
  7. whingers
  8. whingery
  9. whinges
  10. whingey
  11. whinging

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whinger (page history and authors); whinger (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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