Meaning

1 senses

  1. A low intermittent sob.

    Wimmern, Gewimmer, Winseln

    хны́каньеxnýkanʹje

    пхиканняpxykannja, скімленняskimlennja

More definitions
  • a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

Examples

23 sentences

  1. The dog whimpered and backed away.

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  2. Cookie whimpered in pain.

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  3. Tom started whimpering.

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  4. Tom's dog whimpered.

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  5. How long are you going to keep whimpering about that? You can't change the past.

    deWie lange willst du noch darüber jammern? Du kannst die Vergangenheit nicht ändern. — Zaghawa

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a low intermittent sob:
Русский
By meaning 1
a low intermittent sob:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a low intermittent sob:

Origin

From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“t

From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).

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Forms

plural: whimpers
Singularwhimper
Pluralwhimpers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way:whine

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whilstC1whimwhimsicalwhine

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