Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dirk or long knife.
Wiktionary
- n. One who whinges.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. & Prov. Eng. A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
Examples
“A large part of the problem is imagining how much everyone hates me being such a moany whinger, which isn't helped when people tell me I am - the whole "It could be worse" scenario.”
“It stood out in an otherwise incredibly physical game that was played in fantastic spirit I complained loudly and was called a whinger, when ...”
“The portly one has been stoking up the pressure on Liverpool by claiming Benitez is a "whinger" which, while true, is like him accusing others of being fat, jowly and enjoying direct football.”
“No doubt the media are going to conveniently ignore this and just casigate Wenger for being unsporting, classless and a "whinger".”
“I feel it turns me into a whinger and a victim, and I hate bringing this crap into the worlds of lovely people; which my friends are.”
It might sound negative, but it is positive… « I'm Not Broken
“It would also, said a courtier, make the future king of England look “like a whinger whiner.””
“I thought not, you're just another mewling whinger.”
“Thank God the Frenchman didn't do the accusing, can you imagine the column inches that would have filled, whinger, sore loser, etc.”
“For the Americans: A whinger is someone who complains constantly and lives in the land of half-empty glasses.”
“I will laugh at all the Tories complaining about Cameron not being enough of a right-whinger for them- the defections to UKIP, probably led by Hannan, will be a pleasure to watch.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whinger’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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classy invective
words that criticize or insult in a precise and elegant manner
puerile, jejune, insipid, meretricious, blackguard, feckless, froward, mountebank, venal, asinine, inane, minx and 19 more...
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S-words
sabre, falchion, rapier, excalibur, cutlass, scimitar, xiphoid, scabbard, matachin, whinyard, ensiform, whinger and 18 more...
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Cold Steel
A list of fencing terms, by no means comprehensive.
epee, foil, sabre, buckler, shield, rapier, dagger, hilt, tang, fleche, sabreur, parry and 26 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Another usage on longé. Jan 19, 2010
chained_bear "He had received a whinger, or short sword, as his share of the weaponry, and was practicing drawing and sheathing it as he spoke."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 795 Jan 3, 2010
sakhalinskii Someone who complains to a whingee. Aug 5, 2008