[HPforGrownups] Whinging

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 53824

Steve wrote:
> Out of curiousity, is "whinge" a contemporary word? Would I find it in
> the Oxford Dictionary? Doesn't matter; just curious.
>
> Of course, being from the midwest, I was looking forward to winging my
> way over the ocean to visit Little Whinging (winging). Little Win-Jing
> sound like it should be a small village just a few miles west of
> Beijing (Peking).

It is indeed a contemporary word.

I tend to think of it as being mostly an Australian word, used of the
English ie "whinging Pom" and based on the stereotype of the English
complaining all the time (by contrast with the equally stereotypical stoic
Aussie). As in this joke: How do you know when a planeload of Poms has
landed? The engines stop but you can still hear the whining..."

Cheers

Ffred (neither English nor Australian)

O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
Gwret dy Cymry yghymeiri