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whingers

whingers is the plural of whinger.

Meaning of whinger

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

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

Questions about whingers

What is whingers the plural of?
Whingers is the plural of whinger.

Words near whingers in the dictionary

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

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