Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dirk or long knife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. & Prov. Eng. A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
whinges .
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Examples
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A large part of the problem is imagining how much everyone hates me being such a moany whinger, which isn't helped when people tell me I am - the whole "It could be worse" scenario.
Mens sane in corpore sanum, or something ailbhe 2004
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It stood out in an otherwise incredibly physical game that was played in fantastic spirit I complained loudly and was called a whinger, when ...
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No doubt the media are going to conveniently ignore this and just casigate Wenger for being unsporting, classless and a "whinger".
Arsenal Mania 2009
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The portly one has been stoking up the pressure on Liverpool by claiming Benitez is a "whinger" which, while true, is like him accusing others of being fat, jowly and enjoying direct football.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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Thank God the Frenchman didn't do the accusing, can you imagine the column inches that would have filled, whinger, sore loser, etc.
Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield 2011
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It would also, said a courtier, make the future king of England look “like a whinger whiner.”
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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I feel it turns me into a whinger and a victim, and I hate bringing this crap into the worlds of lovely people; which my friends are.
It might sound negative, but it is positive… « I'm Not Broken 2009
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It would also, said a courtier, make the future king of England look “like a whinger whiner.”
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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I thought not, you're just another mewling whinger.
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For the Americans: A whinger is someone who complains constantly and lives in the land of half-empty glasses.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
sakhalinskii commented on the word whinger
Someone who complains to a whingee.
August 5, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word whinger
"He had received a whinger, or short sword, as his share of the weaponry, and was practicing drawing and sheathing it as he spoke."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 795
January 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word whinger
Another usage on longé.
January 19, 2010