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whin

noun

1 whin

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.

synonyms: furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus.

Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.    plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.    annual; ... show more

Dutch: brem, doornstruik, duindoorn, gaspeldoorn
Polish: kolcolist zachodni

2 whin

Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.

synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen.

Dutch: duindoorn, gaspeldoorn
Polish: janowiec barwierski

3 whin

Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).

synonym: whinstone.


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whine

noun

1 whine

A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way.

synonym: whimper.

Roget 839: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, ... show more

Dutch: gejengel, gekanker, gemaal, gemekker, gemier, geouwehoer, geteem, gezanik, gezeik, gezemel ... show more

verb

1 whine

Move with a whining sound.

2 whine

Talk in a tearful manner.

synonym: snivel.

Roget 839: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with etc. 915; fret etc. (suffer) 828; ... show more

3 whine

Make a high-pitched, screeching noise.

synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, squeak.

Roget 411: cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell, bellow, howl, scream, screech, ... show more

4 whine

Complain whiningly.

synonyms: grizzle, yammer, yawp.


Moby thesaurus: bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, chant, chirp, coo ... show more.

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whining

Moby thesaurus: Jeremianic, acute, argute, bawling, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, blatant, complaining, complaint, creaky, crying, destructive criticism, dissent, ear-piercing, faultfinding, fretful ... show more.

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