WHINE
\wˈa͡ɪn], \wˈaɪn], \w_ˈaɪ_n]\
Definitions of WHINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
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To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
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A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
By Oddity Software
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To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
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To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
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A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
By Noah Webster.
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To show distress by a plaintive, nasal cry; murmur in a mean or childish manner; to complain; to talk in a plaintive, nasal tone.
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A plaintive tone; the act or sound of weak, fretful complaining.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To utter a plaintive, shrill cry: to complain in an unmanly way.
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A plaintive cry: an affected nasal tone of complaint.
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WHINER.
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WHININGLY.
By Daniel Lyons
