Whinger vs Whinged - What's the difference?
whinger | whinged |
One who whinges.
* 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
(whing)
(whinge)
A high-pitched ringing sound
* 1855: Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
* 1578: Henry Lyte (tr.), A Niewe herball or historie of plantes
* 1791: letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West , vol. 4 (1896)
* 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
*:: An’ shakin ther whings , thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.
As a noun whinger
is one who whinges.As a verb whinged is
past tense of whing.whinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Synonyms
* See alsowhinged
English
Verb
(head)whing
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)- " Whing', ' whing ," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. . .
Etymology 2
See .Noun
(en noun)- The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
- 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
- When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll