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whinge; winge
verb
to complain; to whine AUSTRALIA, 1938- As they climbed into the car Dexter whinged: “I only hope the train’s on time or I’ll pass away with malnutrition.” — Willie Fennell, Dexter Gets The Point, p. 32, 1961
- He’d been threatening to kick him off the place for years, but every time he got round to doing it Mrs Smythe came wingeing to him that she was going to have another baby. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 203, 1962
- Rivers flow downwards to the sea, the sun rises in the east, a girl’s hard to get when your pay’s spent, sailors whinge. Phenomena, natural and immutable. — J.E. MacDonnell, Sabotage!, p. 27, 1964
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