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Definition: Whiner |
WhinerNoun1. A person given to excessive complaints and crying. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whiner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (galbak). (references) |
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Synonyms: WhinerSynonyms: bellyacher (n), complainer (n), crybaby (n), grumbler (n), moaner (n), sniveler (n), squawker (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Button it up, pal. Nobody likes a whiner! (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
whiner | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "whiner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 哀鸣者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | quengler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλαυθμυρίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caayneyder (beggar, chanter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inerwhay plângãcios (crier). (various references) нытик (puler, sorehead, squealer). (various references) gnällspik (knocker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "whiner": whiners. (additional references) | |
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"Whiner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hiner, Hipner, wahine, wainer, whane, whanne, whenne, whier, whiler, whini, whinne, whino, whizer, winer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "whiner" (pronounced wī"ner or hwī"ner) |
| 4 | w ī" n er | Weiner. |
| 3 | -ī" n er | briner, decliner, designer, diner, finer, liner, miner, minor, recliner, refiner, shiner, signer. |
| 4 | -w ī" n er | Weiner. |
| 3 | -ī" n er | briner, decliner, designer, diner, finer, liner, miner, minor, recliner, refiner, shiner, signer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: rewin, whine. | |
-2 letters: heir, hern, hewn, hire, rein, weir, when, whin, whir, wine, wire, wren. | |
-3 letters: ern, hen, her, hew, hie, hin, ire, new, rei, rin, wen, win. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, er, he, hi, in, ne, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: wherein, whiners, whinier, wincher, writhen. | |
+2 letters: shrewing, whinnier, whitener, winchers. | |
+3 letters: chinaware, handwrite, nightwear, nowhither, ownership, rechewing, reshowing, rewashing, shipowner, showering, swineherd, whereinto, wherrying, whiteners, windhover, withering, wreathing, wrenching, wuthering. | |
+4 letters: beshrewing, chairwomen, chinawares, chowdering, downhiller, handwrites, hoodwinker, ownerships, preshowing, prewashing, rainwashed, rainwashes, reweighing, shipowners, swineherds, swithering, unworthier, unworthies, wardenship, weathering, wharfinger, whickering, whimpering, whispering, windhovers, worthiness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 68 69 6E 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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