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Whinner. World English Historical Dictionary

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Whinner. 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. Whinner v. local. [Frequentative of WHINE v.: see -ER5.] intr. To whine (feebly). Hence Whinnering vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; Whinner sb., a feeble whine.

1 c. 1700.  Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033.

2 1840.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), I. 124. Lying on the floor insensible, or occasionally sitting up … executing a sort of whinner.

3 1854.  Thoreau, Walden, xii. (1886), 227. I formerly saw the racoon in the woods,… and … heard their whinnering at night.

4 1866.  Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 212. Poor whinnering old moneyed women.

5 1888.  Amélie Rives, in Lippincott’s Mag., April, 453. A fitful, whinnering gust occasionally shook the dry limbs above them, wailed up and down the road for a little space, fleered sullenly to leeward, and was still.

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