whineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: wīn, IPA: /waɪn/, /ʍaɪn/, [ʍʌɪ̯n], [ʍäːn], [ʍɑe̯n]
• 韻: -aɪn
• Homophone: wine (wine–whine merger)

名詞

whine (plural whines)

1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020:

     The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.

2. A complaint or criticism.

   I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday.

   • 1987 April 4, T.R. Witomski, “witomski responds to readers' response to witomski (letter)”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

     Eighner, in particular, is infamous for his "what publishers and editors did to poor me" whines.

派生語

動詞

whine (third-person singular simple present whines, present participle whining, simple past and past participle whined)

1. (intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
2. (intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.

   The jet engines whined at take off.

3. (intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine.
   • 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:

     [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]

   • 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins:

     Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.

4. (intransitive) To move with a whining sound.

   The jet whined into the air.

   The wind whined and moaned through the trees.

5. (transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.

   The child whined all his complaints.

   Kelly Queen was whining that the boss made him put on his tie.

使用する際の注意点

• The homophony of whine (and whining) with wine (and wining) is sometimes a point of humor, as with would you like some cheese with your /waɪn/? or if you're going to be whining then I need to be wining.

Conjugation

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:complain

派生語

• whining Willy