Whine

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1. Verb

To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.

2. Verb

To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.

3. Noun

A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.

4. Noun

a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
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