On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote:
| On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
| >
| > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived
| > there for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in
| > New Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism.
|
| Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recall here (UK).
| Probably the thing to do is for someone with access to check the OED for
| the etymological references.
$ dict whinge
1 definition found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whinge \Whinge\, v. i.
To whine. [Scot.] --Burns.
This claims that Robbie Burns may have originated it. (Robbie Burns
wsa a famous Scots poet a few centuries ago)
-D
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