whinger
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʍɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
whinger (plural whingers)
- One who whinges.
- 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
- The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery.
- 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
- See also Thesaurus:complainer
- IPA: /ˈʍɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈʍɪŋɡə(ɹ)/
whinger (plural whingers)
- (obsolete, Scotland) A whinyard.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Note to Chapter 22,
- “Fye on you, why do you not strike your whingers into me, or blow me up with a barrel of powder, rather than torture me thus unmercifully?”
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Note to Chapter 22,
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