Complain vs Norn - What's the difference?
complain | norn |
To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
* Milton
To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
* Shakespeare
To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
(Norse mythology) Any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny.
An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
As verbs the difference between complain and norn
is that complain is to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment while norn is (obsolete) to mourn; complain.complain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain !
- They've complained about me to the police again.
- Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
- the complaining bed-springs