Whine is close. I would define it as complaining in a moaning fashion.
Giles
lclark@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >This is going to be a bit of whinge,
>
> You Aussie lot have contributed so many wonderful new words to the
> common language that divides us all that I want to keep up with new
> ones when they appear on my horizon. In the above does "whinge" mean
> merely a "whine," or is it more of a funereal "wail," like those hired
> mourners turn out?
>
> les clark
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