| 释义 |
peenge, v. Sc. and north. dial.|piːndʒ|
Also pinge.
[Formed perh. on whinge, under the influence of peep, peek, peevish, or the like.]
intr. To whine, complain in a whining voice.
15..in Evergreen (1824) I. 51 A Bytand Ballat on warlo Wives, That gar thair Men live pinging Lives. 1791J. Learmont Poems 377 The unhappy ne'er shall peenge to me in vain. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxix, That useless peenging thing o' a lassie there at Ellangowan. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Peenging, Pinging, uttering feeble, frequent and somewhat peevish complaints. ‘A peenging bairn’—a whining child. 1900in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Scotland and Northumb. |