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Whined vs Whinged - What's the difference?

whined | whinged |

As verbs the difference between whined and whinged

is that whined is (whine) while whinged is (whing).

whined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (whine)

    • whine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
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  • a complaint or criticism

    • Verb

    (whin)
  • To utter a high-pitched cry.
  • To make a sound resembling such a cry.
    • The jet engines whined at take off.
  • To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
  • To move with a whining sound.
    • The jet whined into the air.
  • To utter with the sound of a whine.
    • The child whined all his complaints.
    Kelly Queen was whining that the boss made him put on his tie.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    whinged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (whing)
  • (whinge)

    • whing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched ringing sound
  • * 1855: Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
    • " Whing', ' whing ," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. . .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move with great force or speed

    • Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1578: Henry Lyte (tr.), A Niewe herball or historie of plantes
    • The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
  • * 1791: letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West , vol. 4 (1896)
    • we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded
  • * 1869: James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect
    • When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll
  • *:: An’ shakin ther whings , thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989