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To whinge is to complain again and again in a way that the people listening. The complaint is usually about something small, the tone is unhappy, and it does not stop. 'Stop whinging and finish your homework.' It is close to whine and to moan, and it is always negative — nobody has ever whinged about anything important in the speaker's opinion, because calling it whinging is precisely how you say the complaint does not deserve attention. The important thing for you to know is *where* it is used. Whinge is British, Australian, and New Zealand English. Americans generally do not use it; they say whine or complain, and many Americans would not recognise the word at once. In Australia it is extremely common, and there is even a well-known joke phrase, 'whinging Poms', for British people who complain. It works as a verb ('he whinged about the food all week') and as a noun ('she's having a whinge about the weather'). That noun use is friendly and casual: 'having a whinge' can mean letting off steam with a friend, and the speaker may be smiling. In this softer use it is not a real attack. Spelling is worth a moment: whinge keeps its e before -ing, so it is whingeing (and whinging is also accepted). The e is there to keep the 'j' sound soft, as in binge → bingeing. It is informal — fine with friends, wrong in a formal essay.
（英式、澳式英語）沒完沒了地抱怨、發牢騷。相當於台灣說的「一直碎念、一直靠北」，語氣不客氣。重點：這是英國、澳洲用語，美式英語幾乎不用，美國人會說 whine 或 complain。名詞 have a whinge 語氣較輕鬆，指「發發牢騷」。
組成It comes from a northern English form of an old word hwinsian, meaning to whine. Trace it far enough back and it rests on a very old root meaning to hiss or whistle — a word for a thin, high sound. So at the bottom, whinge is not about the complaint at all; it is about the noise.
同家族的字
- whinefrom the same old whine-root; whinge is the northern branch of the same word
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
whingeverb/(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/
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To whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
- Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do.
- I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.
whingenoun/(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/
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A cry.
- Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.
- “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and the yowl, was never out of his mouth.”
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A peevish complaint.
- I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。