Whine

Definition: Whine

Whine

Noun

1. A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way.

Verb

1. Move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us".

2. Talk in a tearful manner.

3. Complain whiningly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "whine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Note: Whine \Whine\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Whined; Whining.]. (references)

Synonyms: Whine

Lamentation

Scream; (cry out); mew; (animal sounds); groan, moan, whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air.

Noun: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.

Crosswords: Whine

You whine like a mule (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.)

'Cause I could do anything I want, and instead I choose to pout and whine and feel the burden of Slayerness (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Bad mood whine again (Glycerine; performing artist: Bush)

I howl and I whine I'm after you (Hungry Like the Wolf; performing artist: Duran Duran)

I hear you singing in the wires I can hear you through the whine (Wichita Lineman; performing artist: Glen Campbell; writing credit: Jimmy Webb)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Fear Less, Hope More; Eat Less, Chew More; Whine Less, Breathe More; Talk Less, Say More; Hate Less, (reference)

• The Daze of Whine and Neurosis (reference)

• The Lonely Whine of the Top Dog (reference)

• Wendy and the Whine (reference)

• Whine and Dine a Tongue In Cheek Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Whine (reference)

• Whine De Lune (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

vaj (alas, bewailing, coronach, cry, dope, fat, lachrymation, lament, lamentation, oil, seed oil), vërshëllimë e plumbit, ulërin sirena, ulërime e sirenës, rënkoj (bellow, groan, howl, mewl, moan, sob, wail, whimper), rënkim (groan, howl, jeremiad, moan, wail, whimper, wow), ankohem (beef, bind, cavil, complain, grouse, growl, moan, squawk, yammer), ankim (cavil, complaint, grievance, nagging, peeve, pet), angullin (screak, squeak, whimper, yelp), angullimë (squeak, squeal, wail, whimper, yelp). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ولول (squeal, ululate), ‏عبر عن كذا بالإنتحاب, ‏طن (boom, buzz, midriff, ring, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), ‏انتحاب, ‏إنتحب (blubber, squeal, wail, yammer), ‏أنين (groan, moan, plaint, sighing, sough, whimper), ‏أن (groan, moan, sough, that, whimper), ‏بكى (bring out, cry, fret, greet, set off, sob, weep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стенание (groan, moan, sigh, wail), стена (dike, groan, moan, side, sigh, sough, wall), скимтя (mewl, whimper, yammer, yowl), хленчене (bleat, whimper), хленча (grizzle, mewl, snivel, whimper, yammer, yap), хленч (snivel), вой (clamor, clamour, cry, howl, rave, wail, yawl, yowl), вайкам се (yammer), вия (chide, howl, twine, twist, ululate, wail, waul, wreathe, yowl), превзет носов говор. (various references)

Chinese 

發牢騷 , 呜�'�声. (various references)

Czech

vrnìt (Pule), vrnìní (purr), výt (howl, scream, yowl), skuèení (howl, howling, screech, ululation, yowl), kòuèet (squeal, whimper), kòuèení (whimper), kòourat (snivel, squeal), hořekování (lament, lamentation), bìdovat (lament, moan, wail), bìdování (Lam, lamentation, moan, wail). (various references)

Farsi 

فغان (Shout), نالیدن (Complain, Groan, Grunt, Whimper), ناله کردن (Bleat, Groan, Hone, Wail, Whimper), ناله (Croon, Dolor, Groan, Grumble, Moan, Wail, Whimper), باناله گفتن . (various references)

Finnish

vikistä (squeak, whimper), uikuttaa (moan, wail), ruikutus (whimper), ruikuttaa (whimper), mankua, kitistä (creak, squeak), inistä (whimper), älähtää (give a yelp, yelp). (various references)

French

vagir (whimper), se lamenter, plainte, geindre (whimper), gémissement (whimper), gémir (whimper). (various references)

German

winseln (grovel, pule, whimper), wimmern (groan, mewl, moan, pule, whimper), weinen (cry, crying, to cry (for), to weep, weep, weeping, wept), quengeln (grouch), quengelei (whining), pfeifen (barrack, blow, fifes, hoot, howl, peep, pipe, swish, swoosh, to blow a whistle, to pipe, to whistle, whistle, whistles, zing, zip), klagen (bewail, complain, complaints, cry, lament, lamentation, lamentations, moan, Sue, to bewail, ululate, ululation, wail, wailing, worry), jaulen (give a yelp, howl, yelp, yelping, yip, yowl), jammern (bellyache, groan, lament, lamentation, moan, squeal, to lament, wail, wailing, yammer), heulen (bawl, bawling, blubber, blubber out, cry, hoot, howl, howling, roar, roaring, scream, screaming, snivel, to cry, to hoot, to howl, ululate, ululation, wail, wailing, whining, yell, yowl, yowling), greinen (whimper), gejammer (bellyaching, griping, moan, moaning, whining). (various references)

Greek 

κλαθμυρισμόσ, κλαθμυρίζω, κλαψούρισμα (whimper), παράπονο (beef, complaint, grievance, plaint, plaintiveness). (various references)

Hebrew 

ילל�" (howl, lament, ululation, wailing, yowl), לילל (grizzle, howl, squeal, ululate, wail), ל�"תבכין (snivel), בכי (cry, crying, weeping). (various references)

Hungarian

nyafogás (bitching, cant, grizzle, snivel, whimper, whining, yammering). (various references)

Indonesian

meratap (wailful), mengaduh (groan, lament, moan, wail), memekik (shriek, yelp), cengeng (pule, tearful). (various references)

Italian

mugolare (moan, whimper). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

く�"く�"鳴く (to whine), 弱音�'はく (to capitulate, to say die, to whine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

く�"く�"なく (to whine), よわね�'はく (to capitulate, to say die, to whine). (various references)

Korean 

우�" 소리 (Bellow, Peep). (various references)

Manx

caayney (beg, bray, chant, drawl), caayn (bray, lay, lay poetry, song). (various references)

Pig Latin

inewhay.(various references)

Portuguese

queixar-se (chide, complain, crab, grumble, moan, quarrel, remonstrate, repine), lastimar-se (lament, snivel), lamuriar, gemer (groan, grunt, howl, moan, sigh, wail), ganir (yelp), dizer com voz chorosa, choramingar (mewl, mule, pule, slobber, snivel, whimper). (various references)

Romanian

tânguit, smiorcãi (sniff, whimper), se vãita (cry), sclifosi (grizzle, snivel, whimper), scânciturã (whimper), scânci (grizzle, mewl, squeal, whimper), scâncet (whimper, whimpering, whining), rosti pe un ton plângãreţ (whimper), orãcãi (croak), miorlãi (Caterwaul), chelãlãit (whimper, yap, yelp), chelãlãi (whimper, yap, yelp). (various references)

Russian 

хныкать (mewl, pule, snivel, whimper, whimpers), хныканье (whimper), ныть нытье (whining), ныть (ache, complain, hurt, whines), завывать (ululate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prenemagati se (mince), prenemaganje (affectation), cvileti (pule, whimper). (various references)

Spanish

gimotear (grizzle, pule, wail, yammer). (various references)

Swedish

yta (area, extent, face, outside, surface, top), gnälla (creak, gripe, grizzle, mewl, nag, pule, whimper, yelp). (various references)

Turkish

sızlanmak (beef, belly, bemoan, complain, gripe, grizzle, groan, grunt, kick, squeal, whimper), sızlanma (beef, complaining, crab, gripe, groan, growl, whimper), mızmızlanmak (carp, crab), mızmızlanma (gripe), mızırdanmak (grumble, pule), mızırdanma (grumbling, whimper), halinden şikâyet etme. (various references)

Turkmen 

yzlamak (snivel), yссyldy, yссyldam, izzildemek (make a fuss, moan), iссildemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

скавучання, скиглення (yelp), скиглити (natter, yelp), ниття (nagging, yammer), нити (belch, yelp), бідкатися. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng than van (moan, wail), tiếng rên rỉ, tiếng khóc nhai nhi. (various references)

Welsh

gerain (whimper), cwyno (bewail, complain, lament). (various references)

queritor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "whine": whined, whiner, whiners, whines, whiney. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Whine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahine, hinee, wahine, waine, weine, whabe, whand, whane, whanne, wheen, whenne, whense, whie, whieh, whige, whime, whince, whind, whing, whini, whinne, whinney, whino, whins, whipe, whire, whise, whive, whize, winea, winel, winoe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hewn, when, whin, wine.

-2 letters: hen, hew, hie, hin, new, wen, win.

-3 letters: eh, en, he, hi, in, ne, we.

+1 letter: hewing, newish, wahine, whined, whiner, whines, whiney, whinge, whiten.

+2 letters: chewing, chewink, shewing, unwhite, wahines, wennish, wherein, whiners, whinged, whinges, whinier, whitens, winched, wincher, winches, writhen.

+3 letters: chewinks, headwind, inswathe, nonwhite, pinwheel, shrewing, unweight, unwished, unwishes, weighing, weighman, weighmen, welching, welshing, wenching, wheeling, wheeping, wheezing, whelming, whelping, whetting, whiniest, whinnied, whinnier, whinnies, whitened, whitener, winchers, wineshop, wishbone.