whine

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Last night his whine was almost wores than Lampley's.

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  1. intransitive verb To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.
  2. intransitive verb To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
  3. intransitive verb To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines whining.
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  • However, did you know that for some dialects of English, the WH digarph is pronounced as if it were spelled "HW"?This phenomenon is known as the whine/wine merger, as the h in WH words used to always be pronounced as [hw].
  • That sound ... a whisper-whine, the sound a dog makes when it needs to whine, but doesn't want anyone to hear Me When I opened my eyes again, I could see I was stuck up in a tree, wedged in the crotch between two skinny branches, way out on a limb. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • The teen was in mid- whine, his shoulder slumped in adolescent defiance. —  tell No one
  • The teen was in mid-whine, his shoulder slumped in adolescent defiance. —  Tell No One by Harlan Coben
  • Last night his whine was almost wores than Lampley's. —  East Side Boxing
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

wail ·  squeal ·  hum ·  rumble ·  hiss ·  scream ·  groan ·  growl ·  thud ·  clatter ·  whisper ·  whistle

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whine:   whined ·  whining
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English whinen, from Old English hwīnan, to make a whizzing sound.

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  1. from Middle English whinen, hwinen, from Anglo-Saxon hwīnan, whine, = Icelandic hvīna, whizz, whir, = Swedish hvina, whistle, = Danish hvine, whistle, whine; cf. Icelandic kveina, wail, Gothic (Moesogothic) kwainōn, mourn, Sanskrit √ kvan, buzz.
  2. from whine, v.
 

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