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Definition of Whine

Whine

  1. To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
  2. To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
  3. A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.

Whine Quotations

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
James Whistler

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.
Dennis Prager
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Whine Translations

whine in French is vagir
whine in German is wimmern, winseln
whine in Italian is mugolare
whine in Latin is queritor
whine in Spanish is gimotear

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