Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A low, whining cry; a whimper.

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  • verb Present participle of whimper.
  • noun The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.

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Examples

  • From somewhere amidships the silence was broken by a low whimpering from the cabin boy.

    THE SEED OF McCOY 2010

  • But the whimpering is real, and justified, because it hurts to have your world come crashing down.

    Loose Money And the Roots of the Crisis | Disinformation 2008

  • Democrats are again whimpering and unable to provide a cohesive message from the early stages of this nomination.

    Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America, Revisited 2005

  • From somewhere amidships the silence was broken by a low whimpering from the cabin boy.

    The Seed of McCoy 1911

  • And the whimpering is the sound they make when they're neutered, packaged, and made readily available for mainstream consumption.

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  • And the whimpering is the sound they make when they're neutered, packaged, and made readily available for mainstream consumption.

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  • I have no clear recollection what it was that I said, -- I desire not to recall the whimpering sentences in which I begged to be let alone, in which

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • At one point I became aware that I was kind of whimpering with some barely suppressed emotion ... and I only realized it because some other show-goer gave me an alarmed look and stepped away smartly!

    Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2008

  • An odd kind of whimpering started as I got into the front and shut the door.

    Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

  • I remember washing myself all the time and kind of whimpering about "I'm not gonna have this every month, I want you to know," and washing and washing.

    I Tina Turner, Tina 1952

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