Reverse Dictionary: WHINE

ADJECTIVES
► CANKING gossiping, chattering; whining, peevish → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MARDY of a child: spoiled, sulky, whining → E20 Eng. dial.
► MEWLING crying, whining → 1895 Sc.
► PULY whining, querulous → L17
► SANNOCKING fretful, peevish, whining → 1893 Eng. dial.
► TWINEY given to whining or moaning; fretful, agitated, complaining → 1824 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BLARTING the crying or whining of a child → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANT a whining manner of speaking, esp. of beggars; a whine → 1640
► OLD SOOGH a customary cant or whining mode of speaking → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► PULE a whine; a complaint → L19 now Sc. & literary
► TWINE a whine, a moan; also, a fretful or agitated state; a fit of ill temper; a bad mood → 1876 Eng. dial.
► YAMMERING  a whining, complaining → 1705 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YAWP ► YOWP a shout, a yell; a loud cry; a loud noise; a whine; constant, noisy talking; foolish talk → 1889 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YELP a whine → 1896 Sc.
► YIRN a complaint; a whine → 1896 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BELLY-ACHER a person who complains querulously or unreasonably; a whiner, a whinger → 1885 sl.
► FEASE a fretting, whining child → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GIRNIE one who is given to crying, whining, or fretting → 1825 Sc.
► GRIZZLE-POT a sulky child, one who is constantly whimpering or whining → 19C sl.
► MIVVY a complainer, a whiner, an ‘old woman’ → L19 sl.
► PETER GRIEVANCE a whiner, a complainer, a whingeing child → M19 sl.
► PETER GRIEVOUS a whiner, a complainer, a whingeing child → M19 sl.
► TIDDY BABY ► TITTY BABY a whiner, a crybaby → 1996 Amer. dial.
► YAMMERER a whining, fretful child → 1874 Sc.
► YAP ► YAWP ► YERP a whining, complaining person → 1997 Irish sl.
► YELPER one subject to complain or whine, or make pitiful lamentation for trifling incidents → 1725 sl.
► YENTA a talkative or gossipy woman; a busybody; a noisy, vulgar person; a coarse woman; a scolding woman or shrew; a nagging, whining person, usually female → 1923 US

PHRASES
► STAND UP IN THE CORNER AND BAWL FOR BUTTERMILK said of one who whines or otherwise shows undue eagerness or emotion → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► CAINGE ► CANGE to whine, to grumble, to complain → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLUNCH to look surly or sulky; to frown; to whine, to complain fretfully, to grumble → 1685 Sc.
► GOWL to howl, to yell, to cry, to whine; to scold, to growl, to threaten, to scowl → 1783 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GREEBLE to go about whining, looking for sympathy → 1950 Amer. dial.
► GRIZZLE to fret or sulk; to cry in a whining or whimpering fashion → 1842
► GRUNGE to whine, to complain → 1960s sl.
► IRM to whine, to complain; to question querulously and continuously → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► MOLLIGRANT  ► MOLLYGRANT to lament; to whine → 1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOOLET to whine; to sob; to murmur → 1887 Sc.
► PULE to cry in a thin voice; to whine, to whimper → 1525
► RAME to dwell on a subject persistently; to whine over a grievance; to harp on about one’s troubles → 1875 Sc.
► REAM to ask for anything fretfully and repeatedly; to cry in a whining manner; to ply one with questions; to keep on repeating the same words → 1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SAIRL to whine → 1866 Sc.
► SANNICK ► SANNOCK ► SONNOCK to utter a whining, wailing cry; to cry bitterly → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNY to utter a whining, wailing cry without apparent cause → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SOUGH vb. to utter in a sighing or whining tone → 1816
► THINNY to whine → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWANK to utter peevish sighs; to whine, complain → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWINE to cry, to fret; to whine; to complain, to moan → 1805 Eng. dial.
► WHINDLE ► WHINNEL ► WHINNLE to whimper, to whine, to cry peevishly, to fret → 1770 Amer. dial.
► YACKAZ to whimper, to whine → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YALP-YALP of a person: to call out loudly and shrilly; to whine → 1903 Sc.
► YAMMER to lament, to mourn; to utter cries of lamentation or distress, to wail; to cry aloud fretfully; to whine, to whimper, to fret → 1481 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YARF to whine and complain → 1990s US sl.
► YARP to ‘harp’ fretfully; to grumble, to carp, to complain, to whine → 1827 Sc. obs.
► YAUP ► YAWP ► YOWP ► YOPE to shout, to bawl, to cry aloud; to talk in a loud, boisterous manner; to whine → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YELP to complain, to whine → 1706
► YERM ► YIRM ► YURM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone → 1832 Sc.
► YIRN ► YURN to whine, to complain; to grumble → 1824 Sc. & N. Ireland