different between complaint vs whingeing

English

Etymology

From Middle English compleynte, from Anglo-Norman compleint, from Old French compleindre, eventually from Latin planctus (whence plaint).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?ple?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nt

Noun

complaint (countable and uncountable, plural complaints)

1. The act of complaining.
2. A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.

3. (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
   The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
4. (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
   However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
5. A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.

   Don't come too close; I've got this nasty complaint.

Synonyms

• (in criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer) criminal complaint, complaint of an offence/offense, (penal) charge, (criminal) charges, criminal information, informing the police/authorities, notification of the police/authorities, reporting an offence/offense to the police/authorities

Translations

Anagrams

• coimplant, compliant

English

Verb

whingeing

1. present participle of whinge

Noun

whingeing (plural whingeings)

1. A peevish complaint.
   • 1995, Roy Porter, Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 (page 45)

     We must take Wakley's whingeings with a pinch of salt. A man of passion and prejudice, he habitually dipped his pen in bile.