whineling

English

Etymology

From whine +‎ -ling.

Adjective

whineling (comparative more whineling, superlative most whineling)

1. (obsolete) Whiny; plaintive.
   • 1600, Nicholas Breton, Pasquils Mistresse, Or The Worthie and Unworthie Woman:

     If she be sluttish, pieuish, and vntoward, Wilful,and wanton, lazie, curst,and sullen, Franticke, and foolish, whineling, and froward, And scarce can make a threed of russet wollen, But must be taught how to put vp her pullen: To haue a wench well followed with such fits, Would make a poore man halie beside his wits.

   • 1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3 - Page 406:

     Half swells, then sinks, like fails of ships becalm'd, A dry, dead, sweet — man's mummied voice embalm'd. Shame on the whineling, sleep-inducive, tone!