Definitions
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- noun one who
moans
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining
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Examples
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Back then, they had what's called the moaner's match.
Alive In Truth 2005
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Midway through a 0-0 stalemate he stood up, turned round and pointed at the moaner.
Down go the fairy lights and down go Middlesbrough's promotion hopes | Harry Pearson 2012
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But moaning about men doesn't make you a feminist – it just makes you a moaner who can't get along with men for reasons that are probably at least as much to do with your failings, flaws and foibles as they are with some imagined horridness on the part of men.
Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill 2012
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He was the secretly self-important moaner in all of us.
Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 2011
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I was a supporter of John Edwards but now I find him a prissy moaner.
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I am a lucky guy but used to be quite a moaner and groaner in my twenties.
the funhouse mirror 2009
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Didn't get the job she fancied in the reshuffle, so suddenly she's turned from loyal Gordonite to moaner about him treating her as female window dressing.
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Lucinda an annoying moaner really, but she knew how to dress
Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is 2008
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I believe them - this guy sounds like a right moaner...
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REFERENCES: un rouspéteur (une rouspéteuse) = moaner; le devoir (m) = homework; le souci (m) = worry
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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