Definition of "whine"

whine

/waɪn/

noun
plural whines
1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
  Quotations
  The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
  2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020
2. A complaint or criticism.
  Quotations
  Eighner, in particular, is infamous for his "what publishers and editors did to poor me" whines.
  1987 April 4, T.R. Witomski, “witomski responds to readers' response to witomski (letter)”, in Gay Community News, page 6
verb
third-person singular simple present whines, present participle whining, simple past and past participle whined
1. (intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
2. (intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.
3. (intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
  Quotations
  [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
  1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, page 145
  Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.
  1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins
4. (intransitive) To move with a whining sound.
5. (transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.

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