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English
Verb
whimpering
- present participle and gerund of whimper
Noun
whimpering (plural whimperings)
- The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.
1912, Prospero [pseudonym; Frederick Rolfe], Caliban , “The Thirteenth Papyrus”, in The Weird of the Wanderer: Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe, London: William Rider & Son, Limited, , →OCLC, page 128:And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.
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