whingeverb [ I ]
uk/wɪndʒ/us/wɪndʒ/past tense and past participle whingeing or whinging UK informal disapprovingto complain, especially about something that does not seem important:
Oh stop whinging, for heaven's sake!
She's always whingeing (on) about something.
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Complaining
- beef
- bewail
- bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark! idiom
- cavil
- chunter
- complainant
- complaint
- groan
- grouse
- harp
- harp on (about sth)
- huff and puff idiom
- kick
- lodge
- make a noise about sth idiom
- nagging
- protest
- quibble
- start on at sb
- whinger
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whinge
noun [ C usually singular ] ukus
We were just having a whinge about our boss - nothing new.