winge

English

Alternative forms

• whinge

Etymology

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Verb

winge (third-person singular simple present winges, present participle wingeing or winging, simple past and past participle winged)

1. To cringe
2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) To complain whiningly.
   • 1992, Sky Phillips, Secret mission to Melbourne, November, 1941‎, page 45:

     Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often

   • 1993, Michael Fisher, The Nightmare Man‎, page 169:

     His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good.

   • 2002, Diana Wynne Jones, A Tale of Time City‎, page 41:

     "I'm miserable," Sam proclaimed, plodding behind with his shoelace flapping. "Nobody ever gives me butter-pies when I need them." / "Shut up," said Jonathan. "Stop wingeing."

External links

• A relevant page from Understanding cultures through their key words, Anna Wierzbicka.

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