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Whining ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary

Whining ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whining ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That whines; characterized by whining. (lit. and fig.)

1   In some technical uses (quots. 1625, 1679) = WEEPING ppl. a.

2 15[?].  Cosowarth, Psalme XXX, 17, in Farr, S. P. Eliz. (1845), II. 406. This did my whyninge life endure awhile.

3 a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, I. x. (1912), 60. The houndes … with a whining Accent craving libertie.

4 1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., II. vii. 145. The whining Schoole-boy with his Satchell.

5 1625.  Markham, Inrichm. Weald of Kent, 9. Winter-springs, or teares of water (for, which some call such, A whining or weeping ground).

6 1650.  Nicholas Papers (Camden), IV. 254. A whining puritanicall tubb preacher.

7 1678.  Otway, Friendship in F., II. i. To have us two such whining crop-sick Lovers.

8 1679.  Evelyn, Sylva, xx. (ed. 3), 87. Whyning, or shrivell’d Gelster.

9 1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 142, ¶ 2. A Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb.

10 1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., V. The whining end of a modern novel.

11 1841.  Borrow, Zincali, I. II. iv. 278. The whining, canting tones peculiar to the Gypsies.

12 1888.  Times, 2 Oct., 9/1. The English masses possess pluck, and cannot be got to take much interest in a whining poltroon, even when decked in the colours of a political martyr.

13 1897.  Kipling, Captains Courageous, v. The whining wheel.

14   Hence Whiningly adv.

15 1660.  Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., II. (1682), 21. [They] talk whiningly.

16 1689.  T. Plunket, Char. Gd. Comm., Prol. Making those swearers (whiningly) to yield.

17 1814.  Byron, Lett. to Moore, 3 Aug. I have seriously and not whiningly neither hopes, nor prospects.

18 1888.  Gunter, Mr. Potter, xx. 245. The dog becomes so fearfully restless and whiningly uneasy.

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