whin | (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | Synonyms: whinstone |
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(noun) 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 |
(noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus |
whinberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whortleberry |
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whinchat | (noun) brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows | Synonyms: Saxicola rubetra |
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whine | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whimper |
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(verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, yammer, yawp |
(verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
(verb) move with a whining sound | - |
(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, squeak |
whiner | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker |
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whiney | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiny |
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whinny | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
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(verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
whinstone | (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | Synonyms: whin |
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whiny | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiney |
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