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whine
English
Etymology
From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hw?nan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hw?nan, from Proto-Germanic *hw?nan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?wey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian hvine, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine.
Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wain?n?.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /wa?n/, [?a??n], [????n], [?ä?n], [??e?n]
- (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hw?n, IPA(key): /?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Homophone: wine (accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
whine (plural whines)
- A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
- A complaint or criticism.
Translations
Verb
whine (third-person singular simple present whines, present participle whining, simple past and past participle whined)
- (intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
- (intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.
- The jet engines whined at take off.
- (intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
- (intransitive) To move with a whining sound.
- (transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complain
Translations
Middle English
Verb
whine
- Alternative form of whynen
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whined
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?nd, IPA(key): /wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
- Homophones: wined, wind (in the sense "to turn coils round", etc; in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Verb
whined
- simple past tense and past participle of whine
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