WHINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whiner mean? 

• WHINER (noun)
  The noun WHINER has 1 sense:

1. a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

  Familiarity information: WHINER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bellyacher; complainer; crybaby; grumbler; moaner; sniveller; squawker; whiner

Hypernyms ("whiner" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whiner"):

kvetch ((Yiddish) a constant complainer)

Derivation:

whine (complain whiningly)

whine (talk in a tearful manner)

 Context examples 

On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)