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whinger en · NOUN · etymology 1

From whinge + -er.

One who whinges.
- I have negative blitz spirit. I’m not a keep-calm-and-carry-on-er – I’m a moaner, a complainer, a whinger. I’m also a cynic and a misanthrope; I hate crowds, big events, joining in, enforced fun. 2026 June 28, Polly Hudson, “I was a whinger, a cynic, a misanthrope. Then I saw Harry Styles live – and I will never be the same again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery. 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021:

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Perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”).

(Scotland, obsolete) A whinyard.
- “Fye on you, why do you not strike your whingers into me, or blow me up with a barrel of powder, rather than torture me thus unmercifully?” 1820, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, Note to Chapter 22:

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