Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to whinge
Participle: whinged
Gerund: whinging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | whinge |
| you | whinge |
| he;she;it | whinges |
| we | whinge |
| you | whinge |
| they | whinge |
Perfect
| I | have whinged |
| you | have whinged |
| he;she;it | has whinged |
| we | have whinged |
| you | have whinged |
| they | have whinged |
Past
| I | whinged |
| you | whinged |
| he;she;it | whinged |
| we | whinged |
| you | whinged |
| they | whinged |
Pluperfect
| I | had whinged |
| you | had whinged |
| he;she;it | had whinged |
| we | had whinged |
| you | had whinged |
| they | had whinged |
Future
| I | will whinge |
| you | will whinge |
| he;she;it | will whinge |
| we | will whinge |
| you | will whinge |
| they | will whinge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have whinged |
| you | will have whinged |
| he;she;it | will have whinged |
| we | will have whinged |
| you | will have whinged |
| they | will have whinged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | whinge |
| you | whinge |
| he;she;it | whinge |
| we | whinge |
| you | whinge |
| they | whinge |
Perfect
| I | have whinged |
| you | have whinged |
| he;she;it | have whinged |
| we | have whinged |
| you | have whinged |
| they | have whinged |
Imperfect
| I | whinged |
| you | whinged |
| he;she;it | whinged |
| we | whinged |
| you | whinged |
| they | whinged |
Pluperfect
| I | had whinged |
| you | had whinged |
| he;she;it | had whinged |
| we | had whinged |
| you | had whinged |
| they | had whinged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would whinge |
| you | would whinge |
| he;she;it | would whinge |
| we | would whinge |
| you | would whinge |
| they | would whinge |
Perfect
| I | would have whinged |
| you | would have whinged |
| he;she;it | would have whinged |
| we | would have whinged |
| you | would have whinged |
| they | would have whinged |
Imperative
| you | whinge |
| we | Let's whinge |
| you | whinge |
Verbs conjugated like 'whinge'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'whinge'
hinge,
whine,
whing,
whingle,
change,
chine,
ching,
chinse,
cringe,
fringe,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From a northern variant of Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinisōn (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”). See: Old English '
hwinsian', German, old spelling '
winseln'.
Sample Sentences
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Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do.
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I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.
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"'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye whingeing Whig carles? D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yer cracks?" [1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:]
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You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often [1992, Sky Phillips, Secret mission to Melbourne, November, 1941, page 45:]
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His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good. [1993, Michael Fisher, The Nightmare Man, page 169:]
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“I try to write something that is amusing,” says [Kate] Spicer. “So much of the stuff written about sex is just whingeing, the I'm-not-getting-enough-orgasms kind of thing. It makes women sound as though they can't have fun in bed.” [1995 October 1, Nick Walker, quoting Kate Spicer, “Women and Men: All mouth and no trousers”, in The Independent:]
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"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." [2002, Diana Wynne Jones, A Tale of Time City, page 41:]
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"You know the problem these days with young people? Get them to carry a 500-pound bomb and within 30 seconds they're making noises," he says, imitating a whingeing sound. [2012 December 1, John Lyons, “Action stations as sea giants stay vigilant on the frontline”, in The Australian:]
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You feel bad about whingeing about your own lack of activation on an emotional, psychosexual level because the whole world is telling you: you’ve gotta just survive this horror. [2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, quoting Edward Norton, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]