[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That whines; characterized by whining. (lit. and fig.)
In some technical uses (quots. 1625, 1679) = WEEPING ppl. a.
15[?]. Cosowarth, Psalme XXX, 17, in Farr, S. P. Eliz. (1845), II. 406. This did my whyninge life endure awhile.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. x. (1912), 60. The houndes … with a whining Accent craving libertie.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., II. vii. 145. The whining Schoole-boy with his Satchell.
1625. Markham, Inrichm. Weald of Kent, 9. Winter-springs, or teares of water (for, which some call such, A whining or weeping ground).
1650. Nicholas Papers (Camden), IV. 254. A whining puritanicall tubb preacher.
1678. Otway, Friendship in F., II. i. To have us two such whining crop-sick Lovers.
1679. Evelyn, Sylva, xx. (ed. 3), 87. Whyning, or shrivell’d Gelster.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 142, ¶ 2. A Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb.
1773. Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., V. The whining end of a modern novel.
1841. Borrow, Zincali, I. II. iv. 278. The whining, canting tones peculiar to the Gypsies.
1888. Times, 2 Oct., 9/1. The English masses possess pluck, and cannot be got to take much interest in a whining poltroon, even when decked in the colours of a political martyr.
1897. Kipling, Captains Courageous, v. The whining wheel.
Hence Whiningly adv.
1660. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., II. (1682), 21. [They] talk whiningly.
1689. T. Plunket, Char. Gd. Comm., Prol. Making those swearers (whiningly) to yield.
1814. Byron, Lett. to Moore, 3 Aug. I have seriously and not whiningly neither hopes, nor prospects.
1888. Gunter, Mr. Potter, xx. 245. The dog becomes so fearfully restless and whiningly uneasy.
